Arkiv

3. april 2018, kl. 19.00

Alverdens Nomader - Dansk Nomadeforskning gennem 120 år

Det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab inviterer til åbent foredrag med seniorforsker Ida Nicolaisen.

21. marts 2018, kl. 10.30

The Nomos of World Literature

Public lecture by Prof. Aamir Mufti, University of California, Los Angeles.
Note: location change to meeting room 4th floor.

19. marts 2018, kl. 18.00

Japan’s Gay Empire: Wartime Militarism and Sex Tourism on the Korean Peninsula

Talk by Dr. Todd A. Henry (UCSD), Associate Professor, Modern Korean/East Asian History, Director, Program in Transnational Korean Studies

16. marts 2018, kl. 15.00-17.00

Film screening of 'My Father's House' and Q&A with filmmaker Zhao Dayong

ThinkChina presents the Chinese filmmaker, Zhao Dayong, who will be screening the movie "My Fathers House", which offers a rare glimpse into an immigrant African community in China. 

14. marts 2018, kl. 10.00-12.00

Beastly Identification: separating out innocent from murderous big cats in South Asia

Public talk by Nayanika Mathur, Associate Professor in the Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford. Emerging Worlds Series organized by Centre of Global South Asian Studies.

8. marts 2018, kl. 15.00-17.00

ChinaTalk: China and the Re-Centering of Asia

ThinkChina and the Department of Political Science are pleased to invite you to a ChinaTalk with Professor Brantly Womack, University of Virginia.

7. marts 2018, kl. 15.00-17.00

ChinaTalk: The Silk Road Trap - How China Damages Europe's Position in the Global Order

ThinkChina and Centre for Military Studies at University of Copenhagen invite you to a ChinaTalk by Jonathan Holslag, on the Belt and Road Initiative and its consequenses for Europe's position in the global order.

6. marts 2018, kl. 15.00-17.00

Asymmetric Parity and the Allison Trap

Guest lecture with professor Brantly Womack, University of Virginia on the asymmetric rivalry of the U.S. and China, and his concept of the "Allison Trap".

2. marts 2018, kl. 10.15-12.00

Surveilled, re-educated and assimilated on the New Silk Road. China’s continued Muslim Challenge in Xinjiang

Public talk by Ildikó Bellér-Hann and Rune Steenberg. The talk will provide an insight into the current state of affairs in Xinjiang against a historical backdrop and address the extreme difficulties faced by local people in everyday life.

28. febr. 2018, kl. 13.30-15.00

The New Geopolitics of Gas

Guest lecture by Dr Agnia Grigas. In her critically acclaimed book The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas, Dr Grigas argues that we are in the midst of an energy revolution. How does this new reality influence the strategic relations amongst the US, the EU, Russia and China?

27. febr. 2018, kl. 16.00-17.30

Energy- and Geopolitics in China and USA

Public lecture by Professor Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller organized by ThinkChina, the Danish Foreign Policy Society and the Centre for Military Studies.

23. febr. 2018, kl. 15.15

From Logogram to Phonogram: A Sumero-Japanese Comparison

Public guest lecture by Dr. Fumi Karahashi from Ancient Oriental Studies, Chuo University, Tokyo.

23. febr. 2018, kl. 13.30-17.30

Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly 2018

The assembly aims to promote networking within the Japan-related research communities in Denmark, and to provide a forum for Danish and Japanese researchers, business people and students to meet, discuss new ideas, and to promote Japan-related research and student scholarships.

23. febr. 2018, kl. 11.00

How India Became Democratic

Public talk by Dr Ornit Shani, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa. Emerging Worlds Series organized by Centre of Global South Asian Studies (time changed to 11:00)

16. febr. 2018, kl. 13.00-17.00

Fake News/Bullshit in Time and Space

Seminar addressing themes of ‘fake news’ and ‘bullshit’ from a range of different disciplinary angles, as well as cultural and regional-historical perspectives

8. febr. 2018, kl. 12.30-13.30

Death in the Philippines: corruption, drugs and contraception

Asia brown bag talk by Steffen Jensen, DIGNITY and Dept. of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University and Astrid Krabbe Trolle, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH

6. febr. 2018, 11

India's Role in Asia-Pacific and the World

Centre of Global South Asian Studies and Dept of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies are pleased to invite you to a talk by Mr. Ajit Gupte, Ambassador of India to Denmark.

31. jan. 2018, kl. 14.00-15.30

Comparative perspectives on the transformation of religious space in China

Public event with professor Fan Lizhu and Chen Na of Fudan University, who will each be giving a lecture on the transformation of religious space in China.

30. jan. 2018, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia brown bag talk: Lai Sze Tso

Lai Sze Tso on "Using innovative technologies to improve personal and community health" with China as a case-study.

17. jan. - 18. jan. 2018

International Conference "China in International Economic Dispute Resolution"

Conference with in-depth analyses of China’s contemporary policies and involvement in trade, investment, commercial and energy disputes.

15. dec. 2017, kl. 10.00-13.00

ChinaTalks: The Birth of a Community Movie-Screening Circuit in Post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong

ChinaTalks with Evans Chan, one of the most singularly innovative and diverse figures in the Chinese cultural world, with screening of two films films and a lecture on some of the censorship issues created by China’s tightening control of Hong Kong’s political culture.

14. dec. 2017, kl. 9.00-16.00

Conference: Made by China - China’s new era as an innovative nation

Many companies and organizations tend to look to Silicon Valley in the US for new innovation. At the MADE BY CHINA conference, you will learn why you should also look towards China when it comes to invention of new technologies and solutions.

14. dec. - 16. dec. 2017

Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association

Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies will be co-hosting the Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association at UCPH.

4. dec. 2017, kl. 16.15

The BBB-lecture series: Public talk with Séagh Kehoe

Public talk with Séagh Kehoe, University of Nottingham, on “Eating the “Spirit of the Grasslands”: The Trade and Slaughter of the Tibetan Mastiff”

4. dec. 2017, kl. 15.15-17.00

JapanSession: Dick Stegewerns

Public guest lecture on the history of Japanese cinema by Dick Stegewerns, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, UiO.

28. nov. - 29. nov. 2017

Fairytale & Silk Road: Seminars and Animation Show

A joint event by the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication and ThinkChina, University of Copenhagen.

27. nov. 2017, kl. 16.00-18.00

Philosopher Kings and Oriental Despots

Public lecture by Eric S. Nelson, Associate Professor of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

27. nov. 2017, kl. 15.30-17.30

Workshop: Theory and the Anthropocene

Workshop with Professor Nils Bubandt, School of Culture and Society and co-director of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA), Aarhus University.

27. nov. 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

ChinaTalks: Rural Land Transfer Reforms and Chinese Urbanization

Migration and China’s Urbanization is not only influenced by hukou system and related institutional/social exclusions in host cities, but also by rural land factors in their sending places. 

27. nov. 2017, kl. 13.15-15.00

Zen and the art of magic, amulets and funerals

Public JapanSessions talk by Jørn Borup, Aarhus University: Zen and the art of magic, amulets and funerals - introduction to Japanese religion past and present

24. nov. 2017, kl. 13.00-17.30

CECS & CRS Workshop - Towards Pax & Lex Sinica?

The unstable situation in the Western world during the later years has pushed China and relations with China to the forefront of global and geopolitics as well as in international agreements, not least the Paris Accord on Climate Change from 2016, from which the US resigned in 2017.

22. nov. 2017, kl. 13.00-16.00

Book Discussion Seminar: Religion as Critique

Book discussion Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace with author Dr Irfan Ahmad and scholars from the Dept of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

22. nov. 2017, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia brown bag talk: Andreas Møller Mulvad

In his talk Andreas Møller Mulvad predicts that there will be a new popular movement for democracy before the PRC turns 100 in 2049.

20. nov. 2017, kl. 9.00-16.00

Dissertation Workshop: Ethnography of Connections

The workshop critically addresses a number of questions related to new emerging south-south connections in an increasingly globalized world.

20. nov. - 24. nov. 2017

NNC Conference 2017

Environmental Asia, the 10th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference and PhD Course, takes place at Voksenåsen on 20-24 November 2017.

6. nov. 2017, kl. 14.30-16.00

Buddhism, Youth and Economics

Please join us in a new series of research seminars on Religion at Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS). The second seminar features a presentation by Elizabeth Lane Williams Ørberg.

3. nov. 2017, kl. 14.00-16.00

Public lecture: A Sino-Jewish Encounter, A Humanitarian Fantasy

Public guest lecture with Professor Haiyan about the tens of thousands of European Jews who fled the Nazi genocide to Shanghai. 

2. nov. 2017, kl. 13.00

PhD defence: Emilie Tinne Lehmann-Jacobsen

Inside a contested profession: a comparative study of journalism in Singapore and Vietnam Emilie Tinne Lehmann-Jacobsen defends her PhD thesis.

30. okt. 2017, kl. 13.00-16.00

Public lecture: Screening of 'Nowhere to Call Home' and Q&A with director Jocelyn Ford

Journalist, filmmaker and educator, Jocelyn Ford provides a rarely heard analysis informed by her 17 years in Beijing, along with suggestions for engaging the next generation on social justice issues.

30. okt. 2017, kl. 8.30-10.00

The New International Economic Order seen from Japan

Join us for a public talk by Professor Fukunari Kimura, Keio University, Chief Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).

27. okt. 2017, kl. 10.00-12.00

China’s Local Governance in a Comparative Perspective

The Fudan-European Centre in collaboration with ThinkChina are happy to facilitate a roundtable seminar entitled China’s Local Governance in a Comparative Perspective.

26. okt. 2017, kl. 14.45

The Economization of the Individual - Changes in Buddhist Inspired Practices of Meditation

Public talk with Professor Inken Prohl, Universität Heidelberg

23. okt. 2017, kl. 13.30-16.30

Fudan-UCPH seminar on Chinese history and historical writing

Afternoon seminar where scholars from Fudan University and the University of Copenhagen meet for a series of enriching talks and discussions on contemporary issues.

19. okt. 2017, kl. 14.30-16.00

Transnational Man: the life and trial of Cho Un Kuk, war criminal

Public guest lecture by Robert Cribb, Professor of Asian History at the Australian National University.

19. okt. 2017, kl. 9.00-12.00

Recent Work in the Prehistory of Southwest Asia

A series of four guest lectures on recent research into the prehistoric archaeology of southwest Asia organized by the Centre for the Study of Early Agricultural Societies.

11. okt. 2017, kl. 14.00-16.00

The Reasons Behind the Rise of Western Europe from an “Indian Perspective”

Public lecture by Dr. Kaveh Yazdani, University of Bielefeld.

9. okt. 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

Asiens økonomiske mirakel over for de sikkerhedspolitiske trusler - Hvor står Kina?

Offentlig forelæsning v/ Professor Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller.

6. okt. 2017, kl. 12.30-13.30

Building China: informal and precarious workers in China’s construction industry

Asia brown bag talk by Sarah Swider, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology (University of Copenhagen).

3. okt. 2017, kl. 16.00-18.30

Myths and Women in Modern India

Public guest lecture by Dr Arshia Sattar, renowned Indologist, translator, facilitator, author, and director.

3. okt. 2017, kl. 12.00-14.00

Reading Ramayana in present-day contexts

Join us for a public guest lecture by Dr Arshia Sattar from Mahindra United World College of India, Pune.

28. sept. - 29. sept. 2017

Care in Asia: Beyond and across a clinic

Two-day-workshop on diversified care extended beyond and across a multiplicity of health institutions in Asia.

27. sept. 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

ChinaTalks: Prospects for the 19th Party Congress and China's Future

Note: NEW VENUE! ChinaTalk with renowned China scholar, Professor David Shambaugh, on the upcoming 19th party congress. 

13. sept. 2017, kl. 14.15-16.00

Goodbye iSlave - A Manifesto for Digital Abolition

Guest lecture by Jack Linchuan Qiu, Professor, School of Journalism & Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

7. sept. 2017, kl. 15.00-16.30

Chinese Literature and the writer in the 21st Century

Four of contemporary China’s most renowned writers: Ge Fei, Bi Feiyu, Yang Hongying, and Dong Xi share their views on modernity in contemporary China’s literature. 

14. aug. 2017, kl. 14.15-17.00

Open lecture on health innovation: Engineering Solutions for Health Systems Strengthening

School of Global Health invites you to a lecture with Professor Muhammad H. Zaman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University. 

28. juni 2017, kl. 15.30-17.30

Filmscreening: Guli's Children

Filmscreening of 'Guli's Children', a Joe Thomas Karackattu film, at the 9th annual ADI conference.

28. juni 2017, kl. 11.15-12.15

Southeast Asian Artists' Global Networks

Keynote lecture by Professor Nora Taylor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, at the 9th annual ADI conference.

27. juni 2017, kl. 11.15-12.15

A Mahatma on the March: Towards an Aesthetics of the Ambulatory

Keynote lecture by Professor Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University, at the 9th annual ADI conference.

26. juni - 28. juni 2017

ADI Conference 2017

Asia in Circulations, the 9th annual international ADI conference, takes place at the University of Copenhagen on 26-28 June 2017.

10. juni - 11. juni 2017

Buyer’s Paradise

Buyer’s Paradise - NIAS research project as theatre performance. 

11. maj 2017, kl. 13.00-15.00

Public Lecture: Labor and Money in Yachen Gar

Talk by Dr. Yasmin Cho on how the invisible labor and economic activities conducted by Tibetan nuns contribute to the contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivalism in China.

5. maj 2017, kl. 13.30-17.30

Cross-Strait Relations and East Asian Peace

Pre-Shanghai Forum 2017 at Asia House organised by Fudan-European Center for China Studies and NIAS-Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. 

28. april 2017, kl. 14.00-16.00

ChinaTalks: China and Russia: Assessing Strategic Convergence

ThinkChina.dk and Center for Military Studies UCPH invite you to ChinaTalks with Professor Lora Saalman, China and Global Security Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 

27. april 2017, kl. 15.15-17.00

JapanSessions: Toshio’s Movie Castle

Public guest lecture by Dr Shiro Yoshioka, University of Newcastle, who is currently writing a research monograph on the life and works of Miyazaki Hayao.  

6. april 2017, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia brown bag: Legacies of Detention in Myanmar

NIAS and ADI are pleased to invite you to an Asia brown bag lecture by Dr. Andrew M. Jefferson and Dr. Tomas Max Martin from the Danish Institute Against Torture.

30. marts 2017, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia brown bag: The independence of NOCs in Chinese foreign policy

Asia brown bag lecture by Kasandra Behrndt-Eriksen: "The independence of NOCs in Chinese foreign policy – looking at the cases of Angola and Sudan".

30. marts - 8. april 2017

Food, health and philosophy in East and West 2017

International and interdisciplinary PhD course 'Food, health and philosophy in East and West' taking place in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou.

24. marts 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

Courtly Culture and the Question of Cosmopolitanism in Medieval India

Public guest lecture by Dr. Daud Ali, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

20. marts 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

Kinas nationale sikkerhedsstrategi – hvad indeholder den og hvad er konsekvenserne for omgivelserne?

Center for Militære Studiers Kinaprogram og ThinkChina.dk inviterer til forelæsning om Kinas sikkerhedsstrategi med Liselotte Odgaard, lektor ved Forsvarsakademiet.

20. marts - 21. marts 2017

Viewing Each Other

A two-day conference celebrating the 150th anniversary of the treaty between Japan and Denmark

14. marts 2017, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia brown bag: States of Emergence

ADI and NIAS welcome you to an Asia brown bag talk with Peter Marcus Kristensen from the Dept. of Political Science. 

10. marts 2017, kl. 17.00-19.00

Why do K-pop fans hate Psy's 'Gangnam Style'?

Join us for the next Korean Studies Seminar with Professor Keith Howard, SOAS, University of London.

9. marts 2017, kl. 15.15-16.45

JapanSessions: Jakob Halskov og Philip Philipsen

Japanstudier alumne-event med Jakob Halskov, Fronteo Inc. og Philip Philipsen, LanguageWire A/S.

3. marts 2017, kl. 10.00-12.00

Korean nurse “guest workers” in Germany: Nursing care work as emotional labor

Korean studies talk on Korean nurse “guest workers” in Germany by Yonson Ahn, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

23. febr. 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

Kinas lederskab under forandring

Center for Militære Studiers Kinaprogram og ThinkChina inviterer til forelæsning med professor Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard fra CBS.

6. febr. 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

More than mouthpieces: The other side to Southeast Asian journalism

SEASS lecture by PhD fellow Emilie Tinne Lehmann-Jacobsen, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen.

1. febr. 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

Roundtable: Scandal in South Korea: Democratic Victory or Cancer in the System?

Presentations by: Hyejin Kim, National University of Singapore; Jinsun Bae, CBS; Erik Mobrand, Seoul National University and Geir Helgesen, NIAS.

31. jan. 2017, kl. 16.30-18.00

Political Parties and Democracy in South Korea

Guest lecture by Erik Mobrand, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. 

20. jan. 2017, kl. 9.30-17.30

TRODITIES: Research Workshop

ERC research workshop 'Trust, Global Traders, and Commodities in a Chinese International City’ to discuss preliminary findings and the future directions of research on Yiwu, China, based on the project participants' fieldwork. 

19. jan. 2017, kl. 14.00-15.30

Chinese Culture in the Modern Globalized World

Guest lecture by Torbjörn Lodén

16. dec. 2016, kl. 13.30-15.30

OPEN SEMINAR: War or peace in East Asia?

Jonathan Holslag, Professor, Dept of Political Science, Free University Brussels and Stein Tønnesson, Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo will discuss the prospect of peace in East Asia.   

16. dec. 2016, kl. 11.00-12.30

Europe in Crisis

Chinese Perspectives on European Crisis and the Common Environmental Crisis.

14. dec. 2016, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia brown bag lecture - Sanae Suzuki

Newly arrived guest researcher at NIAS, Sanae Suzuki, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), will be presenting on "Conflict management by regional organizations".

5. dec. 2016, kl. 10.00-12.00

Valuing Buddhist Things

Public guest lecture "Valuing Buddhist Things: Religious objects and knowledge transfer in British India’s hill stations" by Emma Martin, University of Manchester 

2. dec. 2016, kl. 10.15-16.45

Temporariness, circularity, mobility: internal migration and social citizenship in Europe and China

Workshop organised by the Dept. of Political Science. Open to interested scholars, but registration is required.

1. dec. 2016, kl. 13.00-15.00

The Politics of Reform: Peoples Liberation Army under Xi Jinping

As part of ChinaTalks, we are proud to present You Ji, Professor of International relations and Head of Department of Government, University of Macau, PRC.

25. nov. 2016, kl. 13.15-15.00

Development of Universal Social Security and Politics of Health Care in Indonesia

SEASS talk by Muhammad Ridha, activist and researcher engaged in Indonesia’s working and oppressed class movement.

24. nov. 2016, kl. 16.00-18.00

Neighborhood as social and commercial space in South Korea

Public Korea Studies Lecture by Antti Leppänen, PhD, University of Turku, Finland: "Neighborhood as social and commercial space in South Korea: the self-employed and the ideology of communality"

24. nov. 2016, kl. 13.00-16.00

ÅBENT SEMINAR Dansk-kinesisk politisamarbejde: Tid til at tage det næste skridt

I forbindelse med publicering af  ThinkChina.dk’s Policy Brief "Danish-Chinese police collaboration: Time to take the next step" inviterer vi til et eftermiddagsseminar med fokus på dansk-kinesisk politisamarbejde.

22. nov. 2016, kl. 14.15-16.00

Duterte-style Populism: The Philippines in the Geopolitical Economy of Southeast Asia

Presentation by Bonn Juego, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä and currently guest researcher at NIAS. Comments by Nina Trige Andersen and Mark Philip Stadler.

15. nov. 2016, kl. 15.15-17.00

SEASS lecture: Dealing with Environmental Disaster in Urbanizing Indonesia: Ten Years of Lapindo Mudflow, and Still

Public SEASS lecture by Anton Novenanto, Department of Sociology, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia: "Dealing with Environmental Disaster in Urbanizing Indonesia: Ten Years of Lapindo Mudflow, and Still"

11. nov. 2016, kl. 16.00-18.00

Cheonghak Dong – beliefs and life style

Public Korea Studies Seminar with independent scholar Dorrit Wagner. The lecture is in Danish.

11. nov. 2016, kl. 10.00-12.00

Talking with the Pakistani Taliban

Lecture by Mona Kanwal Sheikh, PhD, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS).

10. nov. 2016, kl. 13.15-15.00

JapanSessions: Media Coverage in Crisis

Public lecture on the media coverage of the Fukushima disaster by Dr Jens Sejrup, Dept, of Anthropology, UCPH. The lecture is part of the JapanSession series. All are welcome.

9. nov. 2016, kl. 10.00-11.30

The Ebola Crisis and China’s Search for a Role as a Responsible Great Power

As part of the ChinaTalks, we are proud to present Barry Buzan, Professor of International Relations, LSE.

4. nov. 2016, kl. 12.30-14.00

Comparing Dynamics of Social Capital in Japan and China

Lunch seminar with Shinya Ueno, professor at the Center for Policy Studies, Kumamoto University and Chunrong Liu, associate professor and executive vice director of the Fudan-European Centre for China Studies.

1. nov. 2016, kl. 10.00-12.00

New Brooms and Old: Sweeping Corruption in India, One Law at a Time

Public guest lecture by Aradhana Sharma, associate professor of Anthropology at Wesleyan University

25. okt. 2016, kl. 15.15-17.00

SEASS lecture: Who wants to be the Tinderella?

Public SEASS lecture by Rinatania Fajriani, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies:"Who wants to be the Tinderella? Narrative construction of online dating practice in Indonesia"

24. okt. 2016, kl. 12.15-14.00

JapanSessions: Foredrag ved Lone Jung Persson

Alumnearrangement med Lone Jung Persson, cand.mag. i japansk og økonomi med mange års erfaring som projektleder. Hun arbejder i dag som programleder for Koncern It i Region Sjælland.

17. okt. 2016, kl. 12.00-14.00

Landscapes of Power, Gardens of Labour: The President's Estate in Delhi, India

Public lecture by Professor Amita Baviskar, sociologist at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

12. okt. - 14. okt. 2016

Buddhism, business and economic relations - in Asia and beyond

A three-day conference focusing on the complex relationship and ideological juxtapositions that lie within the nexus of Buddhism and economic activity in various historical and contemporary contexts in Asia and beyond.

11. okt. 2016, kl. 13.00-14.30

Open seminar: Affordances of Tibetan Landscape

Open seminar with Professor Dan Smyer Yü, Founding Director of the Center for Trans-Himalayan Studies, Yunnan Minzu University.

4. okt. 2016, kl. 16.30-18.00

ChinaTalks: Building Inclusive Cities

Landscape Architecture Lectures and ChinaTalks invite you to a talk by Professor Pengjun Zhao, School of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University.

30. sept. 2016, kl. 10.00-17.00

Fudan Day: China’s New Diplomacy and the voices from below

Join us for an informal Fudan Day Event where colleagues from Fudan University and University of Copenhagen discuss China’s New Diplomacy and the voices that are emerging from below through Chinese social media. 

29. sept. 2016, kl. 17.00-19.00

Open seminar: Beef, Barbeque, and Nationalism

Open seminar with PhD Anders Riel Müller, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

29. sept. 2016, kl. 15.00-16.30

Open seminar: New approach to Local Governments’ Innovations in the Xi Era

Seminar with Professor Jianxing Yu, Dean of School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University. Moderator: Jørgen Delman, professor of China Studies.

27. sept. 2016, kl. 15.00-17.00

Who controls murky waters in the South China Sea?

Academic Roundtable discussion with Dr. Hassan Wirajuda, former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia; Dr. Andreas Bøje Forsby, DIIS; Dr. Edyta Roszko, Cross-Cultural & Regional Studies, UCPH; Dr. Camilla T.N. Sørensen, Political Science, UCPH

22. sept. - 24. sept. 2016

13th Korean Studies Graduate Students Convention

The conference aims to give graduate students in all Korea-related fields an opportunity to present their research, share academic interests, and strengthen ties with other junior scholars.

20. sept. 2016, kl. 16.15-18.00

SEASS lecture: Livable City for Who?

Public SEASS lecture by Dr. Rita Padawangi from the Asian Urbanisms Cluster, ARI, National University of Singapore: "Livable City for Who? Place-Making and Cultural Heritage in the era of Fragmented Urbanism" 

12. sept. 2016, kl. 9.30-12.00

Public guest lectures: Thomas Blom Hansen and Edward Simpson

"Media, locality and community: notes on ethnography and media in a township in Durban" by Professor Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University and "You tube or Participant Observation? Recent fieldwork experiences on global infrastructure in Reunion Island" by Professor Edward Simpson, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. 

12. sept. 2016

PhD Workshop: Ethnography of Connections

The workshop critically addresses a number of questions related to fieldwork methodologies in an increasingly interconnected world. 

9. sept. 2016, kl. 14.00

Film screening: An Ordinary Election

The story of an Indian election campaign from up-close - an intimate ground-up perspective of the anxieties, ambitions, struggles, and intrigues from the electoral battleground. Post-screening discussion with the film’s director, Lalit Vachani.

8. sept. - 9. sept. 2016

Symposium: Ways of Overlooking

This symposium is an invitation to focus on the multiple ways of looking and overlooking that entangle and make everyday life. Seats are limited registration is required.

6. sept. 2016, kl. 15.00-17.00

The Rise of Protestantism in Post-Mao China: State and Religion in Historical Perspective

Seminar about Protestantism's explosive growth in post-Mao China with Prof. Yanfei Sun, Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University.

5. sept. 2016, kl. 15.00-17.00

ChinaTalks: Collective Actions in Post-Mao China: Between Chaos and Discipline

ChinaTalks lecture by Dingxin Zhao, Max Palevsky Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Qianren Jihuai Professor of Zhejiang University.

5. sept. 2016, kl. 14.00-15.30

Women in the World of Murakami Haruki

Public guest lecture by Dr Gitte Marianne Hansen, Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University. The lecture is part of the JapanSession series. All are welcome.

29. aug. 2016, kl. 15.00-16.30

China Lecture: Governing the Arctic and Antarctic

Public guest lecture by Professor in International Law Chen Li from the Law School of Fudan University.

29. aug. 2016, kl. 10.00-12.00

Roundtable discussion: Chinese grandparents' contribution in the upbringing of young children in China

The discussion will be led by Dr. He Min from the Preschool Education Department at East China Normal University (ECNU). 

25. aug. 2016, kl. 12.00-13.00

Lunch talk: Beyond Domestic Borders

Lunch talk by Hyaeweol Choi, Professor of Korean Studies; Director, Korea Institute Australian National University: "Beyond Domestic Borders: Transnational Mobility in the Making of Modern Korea, 1920 ‐ 1945" 

24. aug. 2016, kl. 15.30-17.00

China’s aid and investment in developing countries

Open seminar at Asia House with Professor Yu Zheng, Fudan University and Senior Research Yang Jiang, DIIS. The event is organized by ThinkChina.dk, DIIS and Fudan-European Centre for China Studies.

23. aug. 2016, kl. 14.00-16.00

Vested interest in Chinese politics

Open roundtable event on 'vested interests' in Chinese politics with Professor Yu Zheng, Fudan University and Professor Jørgen Delman, University of Copenhagen.

12. aug. 2016, kl. 14.00

Ph.d. forsvar: Andreas Møller Mulvad

Andreas Møller Mulvad forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling "Hegemonic Projects. Interventions on the Politics of Communist Elite Legitimation in China, 2008-2015".

29. juni 2016, kl. 13.00

Public PhD defence: Emilija Zabiliute

Emilija Zabiliute defends her PhD thesis "Living with others - Subjectivity, relatedness and health among urban poor in Delhi".

23. juni 2016, kl. 13.15-15.00

Public Guest Lecture Religion, Atheism and the Quest for Indonesian Identity

Timo Markus Duile, PhD and post-doc at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn, will give a SEASS lecture on identity and religion in Indonesia.

20. juni - 22. juni 2016

ADI Conference 2016

Locating Asia beyond, and within, its territoriality, the 8th international ADI conference explores historical connections, circulations and contentions that produce Asia within a global epistemic frame. The conference will feature keynote addresses, roundtables and panels across disciplines, temporalities and themes in the study of Asian dynamics.

17. juni 2016, kl. 14.30

An Anthropology of -isations

Department of Anthropology invites you to join Professor MSO, Ayo Wahlberg's inaugural lecture.

17. juni 2016, kl. 12.15-14.15

Open event (research + poetry): Your smartphone kills workers in China

This open seminar – which mixes state-of–the–art research and insights from China's factory floors with readings of workers’ – is concerned with the lives of workers in China and discusses how consumers in Denmark may relate to the life of people who produce our smartphones.

8. juni 2016, kl. 15.00-16.30

Book launch: Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan

Join us for a talk with Gitte Hansen, Newcastle University, who will present her latest book "Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan".

26. maj 2016, kl. 15.00-17.00

Open lecture - China in the Era of Xi Jinping: Stronger China, Harder Choices

Open lecture on 'China in the Era of Xi Jinping: Stronger China, Harder Choices' with Jo Inge Bekkevold, Head of the Center for Asian Security Studies, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies.

26. maj 2016, kl. 13.15-15.00

Participative Mapping for the Urban Poor of Jakarta

Yantri Dewi will be giving a SEASS lecture on the topic of Jakartan Urban Poor. Yantri is an Jakarta-based urbanist and lecturer at Matana University in Tangerang. She is trained in architectural engineering at UNPAR in Bandung and holds a Master in Human Settlements from KU Leuven.

26. maj - 27. maj 2016

Art & Politics in Postwar Japan

The conference will focus on art and politics in Japan in the period 1945-1975 in order to provide a foundation for scholars and general audiences to gain insights into the artistic and political situation of Japan in the immediate postwar period.

20. maj 2016, kl. 9.30-11.00

Public lecture - What does China's "New Normal" mean for local governments?

The Economist's Mary Boyd, Director, Economics Corporate Network Shanghai, presents and discuss the conclusions of the recently published report 'Opening the books'.

19. maj 2016, kl. 12.00-13.30

Public lunch talk - China’s Ambition in the South China Sea: Hegemonic Power Versus Maritime Order

Professor Katherine Morton, Chair and Professor of China’s International Relations at the University of Sheffield, discusses China’s hardening stance in the South China Sea.

13. maj 2016, kl. 14.15-16.00

JapanSessions: Livet og karrieren efter Japanstudier med Carina Bastlund Woollhead

Carina Woollhead er Cand. Mag i Japansk fra Københavns Universitet og Internationale Udviklingsstudier fra RUC. Hun arbejder i dag som udviklingskonsulent i erhverv og turisme i Guldborgsund kommune.

3. maj 2016, kl. 10.00-12.00

ChinaTalks Lecture Series: Will China find a ‘New Normal’?

Lecture in the ChinaTalks series with Barry Naughton, Professor of Chinese Economy at UC San Diego. Event co-organized with CFA Society Denmark. 

2. maj 2016, kl. 17.00-19.00

Desiring Denmark: Danish Living in the Social Imagination of Koreans during Colonial Korea

Guest lecture by Albert L. Park, associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA) and the Co-Principal Investigator of EnviroLab Asia at the Claremont Colleges.

2. maj 2016, kl. 14.00

PhD defence - Tanja Kasandra Behrndt-Eriksen

T. Kasandra Behrndt-Eriksen, Department of Political Science, defends her PhD thesis "Chinese Energy Companies’ Acquisitions Abroad. Implications for the Foreign Policy of an Authoritarian State."

29. april 2016, kl. 17.00-19.00

Linguistic Representation of the Sewol Ferry Disaster - A Corpus-based Analysis of Headlines from Two Korean Newspapers

Public guest lecture by You-Kyung Ju, SOAS, University of London.

28. april 2016, kl. 14.00-16.00

The East Asian Peace – Can It Last?

Roundtable in the ThinkChina Working Group on Politics with Stein Tønnesson, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).

27. april 2016, kl. 9.00-11.00

History Inside Globalization - Spatial Power and Inequity in Asia

Public lecture by Professor David Ludden, New York University.

27. april 2016, kl. 17.00-19.00

Engaging the Senses in the Tibetan tantric "Major Practice Session" (sgrub chen)

Guest lecture by Cathy Cantwell, Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.

25. april 2016, kl. 14.00-15.30

Human Rights in China: The Work of the Dui Hua Foundation

Round table meeting on human rights in China and the work of the Dui Hua Foundation.

20. april 2016, kl. 13.00-15.00

Progress and its Ruins: Ghosts, migrants and the uncanny in Northern Thailand

Public guest lecture by Andrew Alan Johnson, Assistant Professor at Yale-NUS College.

20. april 2016, kl. 13.00-15.00

The Failure in Embedded Autonomy: South Korean Regulatory Reform Experience

Public guest lecture by Yeonho Lee, Professor of Political Science, Director of Yonsei-SERI EU Center, and Director of the Institute of East and West Studies, Yonsei University.

19. april 2016, kl. 13.00-15.00

The Dystopia of Health Governance and Moral Rule in Post-coup Thailand

Public guest lecture by Daena Funahashi, Assistant Professor, Aarhus University.

18. april - 20. april 2016

Yonsei University and University of Copenhagen

Following several fruitful visits to Seoul, the University of Copenhagen is currently exploring possibilities for closer collaboration with Yonsei University. As a first step the two universities are organizing a joint Yonsei-Copenhagen workshop on 18-20 April.

15. april 2016, kl. 9.30-13.00

Dansk Kina-politik: eksport, arbejdspladser, ny verdensorden?

I 2015 fejrede Danmark og Kina 65 året for dansk-kinesiske diplomatiske forbindelser. Tidsskriftet Økonomi og Politik benytter lejligheden til at udgive temanummeret ’Dansk Kina-politik – fra spørgsmål om eksport og danske arbejdspladser til ny verdensorden?’

14. april 2016, kl. 13.00-15.45

NEW VENUE: Political Seminar: Is democracy better than meritocracy?

NEW VENUE: Seminar with Daniel Bell and Theresa Scavenius

13. april 2016, kl. 19.00-21.00

Daniel Bell: The China Model

Book Launch of Daniel Bell's new book: The China Model

13. april - 15. april 2016

International conference: EAKLE

EAKLE (European Association for Korean Language Education) conference/workshop 2016. 

9. april 2016, kl. 9.00-18.00

International workshop: ‘Understanding the Other Korea: North Korea’

One day workshop about North Korea.

29. marts - 8. april 2016

PhD course: Food, Health and Philosophy in East and West

Food, Health and Philosophy in East and West: interfaces between science, culture and business - international and interdisciplinary PhD course organised in China.

11. marts 2016, kl. 17.00-19.00

Codruţa Sîntionean: Heritage Practices during the Park Chung Hee Era: An enduring legacy

In the 1960s-1970s, military dictator Park Chung Hee’s postcolonial government created a very enduring trope about correcting the historical views of the past and establishing a “correct view of the nation”

4. marts 2016, kl. 17.00-19.00

Dissident Translations

Taking outset in her video installation and film Reiterations of Dissent (2011/15), Jane Jin Kaisen will talk about her extensive artistic research into the political history of Jeju Island, which she began in 2011 with the exhibition project Dissident Translation.

3. marts 2016, kl. 17.00-19.00

Linguistic Representation of the Sewol Ferry Disaster

Speech by You-kyung, who was awarded a PhD in Korean Linguistics from the University of London, SOAS, in 2014.

3. marts 2016, kl. 10.30-12.00

CANCELLED - Carol Gluck on "Modernity in Common: Japan and World History"

The public guest lecture by Professor Carol Gluck, Columbia University has been cancelled.

2. marts 2016, kl. 15.00-16.30

Redrawing the Global Financial Map - Jin Liqun President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

The talk will discuss how the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) can contribute to economic development in Asia. It will also address the opportunities for the European cooperating partners and the possible synergies between AIIB and the Silk Road initiative.

24. febr. 2016, kl. 17.00-19.00

The Invention of Taekwondo Tradition

Public guest lecture by Dr Udo Mönig, Department of Taekwondo, Youngsan University, Pusan, South Korea.

24. febr. 2016, kl. 12.00-16.00

Readings in Ayurvedic Sanskrit

Seminar with Professor Tsutomu Yamashita, Kyoto Gakuen University, and Associate Professor Kenneth Zysk, University of Copenhagen.

18. febr. - 19. febr. 2016

Evaluating the Early Anthropocene Hypothesis

The conference aims to bring together archaeologists, earth scientists and scholars from related fields working in east and west Asia to evaluate the early Anthropocene hypothesis and the impact Neolithic farming economies had on local environments and global climate.

17. febr. 2016, kl. 15.15-17.00

Japan Sessions: Foredrag ved Peer Kjær

Peer Kjær er medejer i incoming rejsebureau, Liberty International Scandinavia. Han har en baggrund i Japanstudier og gæster ToRS for at dele ud af erfaringer og gode råd fra sin karriere til kommende kandidater.

11. febr. 2016, kl. 13.00-16.00

Governing the conflicted commons: Authorising resource access in the Indian tribal belt

Siddharth Sareen, Section for Global Development, Department of Food and Resource Economics, defends his doctoral thesis at the PhD school of SCIENCE.

10. febr. 2016, kl. 12.00-13.00

Asia brown bag lecture: Atreyee Sen

NIAS and ADI invite you to the brown bag lecture 'My wife carries a knife!’: Right-wing female militancy and castration/ wounding/masculine anxieties in a Mumbai slum by Atreyee Sen.

9. febr. 2016, kl. 12.00-13.30

The Precariat in the Era of Rentier Capitalism - CHANGED VENUE

Public guest lecture by Guy Standing, Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. Please register no later than 1 February.

8. febr. 2016, kl. 13.00

Narrating Self and China. Women’s Autobiography in Early Twentieth Century China

PhD defence by Irina Kristensen.

27. jan. 2016, kl. 12.00-13.00

Music and China’s National Identity

China Lecture with Dr. Chen Yudan (Fudan University) organised by Fudan-European Centre for China Studies. 

14. jan. 2016, kl. 12.00-13.00

Asia brown bag lecture: Trine Brox and Miriam K. Zeitzen

Trine Brox and Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen will present the research project "Prince Peter and The Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia - 7 years in Kalimpong".

15. dec. 2015, kl. 12.00-13.00

Asia brown bag lecture: Stine Puri and Lars Højer

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture with presentations from the collective project Escalations: A Comparative Ethnographic Study of Accelerating Change.

14. dec. 2015, kl. 15.00-16.30

Sharing Cities - A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities

Professor Julian Agyeman and PhD candidate Duncan McLaren on the potential and challenges for cities in the race towards sustainability, considering Copenhagen as one place where a new sharing paradigm is emerging, alongside cities such as Seoul, Medellin and San Francisco.

10. dec. - 11. dec. 2015

Copenhagen China Conference

Conference in Copenhagen featuring China-researchers (from PhD students and onwards) based in Copenhagen and key partners such as Fudan University. 

8. dec. 2015, kl. 16.00-18.00

'One Belt - One Road' – and the implications for China-EU relations

ChinaTalk with Senior Policy Fellow François Godement, Director of the Asia and China Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)

1. dec. 2015, kl. 15.00-17.00

Economy and Security Landscape of Northeast Asia

Lecture by Professor Jong Kun Choi, Yonsei University, who is currently spending a sabbatical year as a visiting scholar at NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. 

27. nov. 2015, kl. 13.30-15.00

Public talk by Professor Purwo Santoso

"Welfare Regime for Democratizing Indonesia" by Purwo Santoso, Professor of Government, Head of Department of Politics and Government at the Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta.

27. nov. 2015, kl. 10.00-12.00

Pyar, paap aur politics (love, sin and politics)

Public lecture on "Pyar, paap aur politics (love, sin and politics): Inter-religious love affairs, slum citizenship and community surveillance in two radicalised Indian ghettoes" by Atreyee Sen, Dept. of Anthropology.

27. nov. 2015, kl. 10.00-12.00

Digital China - Visions, Negotiations and Experiences

Research seminar by Professor Marina Svensson and Dr Barbara Schulte with an introduction to the interdisciplinary project Digital China based at Lund University.

26. nov. 2015, kl. 12.00-13.00

Asia brown bag lecture: Cecilia Milwertz

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture on Manufacturing the World – the interconnectedness of Chinese workers and Danish consumers by Cecilia Milwertz from NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. 

26. nov. 2015, kl. 10.00-13.00

Seminar with Monika Arnez: Gender and Islam in Indonesia

Indonesia is considered to be moderate with regard to its gender orders.  However, the role of women in Islam is contested, and there are different ways of how gender and Islam play out in debates about women’s agency.

25. nov. 2015, kl. 10.00-14.00

Seminar with Monika Arnez: The events of 1965 in Sang Penari

Seminar with Monika Arnez, ERASMUS visiting professor.
The Republic of Indonesia celebrates the 70th anniversary of its independence in 2015, an event that fills the heart of many Indonesian with dignity and joy. However, 2015 also marks the 50th anniversary of an attempted coup d’état and its terrifying consequences, the mass killings of people associated with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and other left-wing organisations.

24. nov. - 25. nov. 2015

Made in India

Global Stories presents MADE IN INDIA as a lecture performance at the University of Copenhagen; a result of a collaboration between Global Stories and the Section for Theatre and Performance Studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.

17. nov. 2015

PhD course: Travel Writing - Politics, Poetics and Meaning

The Department for Cross Cultural and Regional Studies invites PhD students from across disciplines, including—but not limited to—travel studies, literature, anthropology, sociology, area studies, religious studies, geography, political science, postcolonial studies, history, cartography and semiology to present their work, at any stage it might be, and benefit from individual feedback provided—among others—by the keynote speaker, Prof. Tim Youngs (Nottingham Trent University) and all others present, including senior faculty from our department.

12. nov. 2015, kl. 16.15-18.00

UNIQLO Store Manager Candidate Program

Come and hear about the opportunities for a one-year training program with Uniqlo. For students with minimum a bachelor's degree.

12. nov. 2015, kl. 10.00-12.00

Roundtable: The Clash of Civilizations and Terrorism - Imagination or Reality

Roundtable in the ThinkChina Working Group on Politics with Professor Jiadong Zhang, Center for American Studies, Fudan University

11. nov. 2015, kl. 17.15-19.00

Yenching Academy Introduction Meeting

Introduction to the 1-year master of China Studies Program at Yenching Academy w. John Holden, Associate Dean, Yenching Academy.

10. nov. 2015, kl. 10.00-12.00

The Forming of World Subjects: Promoting Intersubjective anthropologies between China and Southeast Asia

Seminar with Associate Professor Haoqun Gong from Institute of Global Ethnology and Anthropology, Minzu University of China. 

9. nov. 2015, kl. 11.00-13.00

ChinaTalks - Ritual and Sincerity: Theories from China

China Talk by Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.

4. nov. 2015, kl. 15.00-17.00

Daniel Beattie - Ikke altid så høflige: Japan set gennem rapmusik

Foredraget giver en introduktion til japansk raps historie, samt hvorledes rapmusik fungerer som et rum for alternative kønsidentiteter og marginaliserede grupper.

4. nov. 2015, kl. 13.00-16.30

2nd Annual Nepal Workshop

The workshop brings together scholars across departments and disciplines working on Nepal for a debate on the key agendas for research.

3. nov. 2015, kl. 14.00-16.00

Celebration of ThinkChina PI, Bertel Heurlin's 80th birthday

Seminar to celebrate ThinkChina PI, Professor Bertel Heurlin's 80th birthday. Speakers include UCPH's Prorector, Lykke Friis and Head of Department, Lars Bo Kaspersen.

3. nov. 2015, kl. 13.15-14.15

Processes of Norm Contestation In International Politics: Humanitarian Intervention and Scorekeepers in Global South

Research seminar by by Sasikumar S. Sundaram, PhD-candidate from International Relations and European Studies at Central European University, Budapest.

31. okt. - 1. nov. 2015

Governance for urban sustainability in China: Challenges and Practices

Workshop on "Governance for urban sustainability in China" at Danish Architectural Centre.

30. okt. 2015, kl. 14.00-16.00

Roundtable Discussion: Assessing China’s Eco-cities

Roundtable discussion with Professor Cunkuan BAO - one of China’s leading authorities on eco-cities.

29. okt. 2015, kl. 17.00-19.00

Spurned Courtesans, Returned Gifts and Invented Pavilions: Convention, Reputation and Mythmaking in Chosŏn-Ming Relations, 1400–1633

Korean Studies Seminars 2015 by Dr Sixiang Wang, University of Pennsylvania.

26. okt. 2015, kl. 14.00-16.00

Guest lecture by Jack Barbalet

Public guest lecture Wealth Migration from Mainland China: International Investor Residency Schemes and Chinese Wealth Preservation by Jack Barbalet, Chair Professor in Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University.

26. okt. 2015, kl. 12.00-16.00

Proletarian Nights in the 21st Century

The seminar is structured as a roundtable with each participant offering a 5-10 minutes reflection on aspects of Rancière’s work of particular relevance to today’s debates.

23. okt. - 24. okt. 2015

N-SEA workshop: Security and migration

The second of two workshops on "Demographic changes in Southeast Asia: Regional and international ramifications" organized by ADI and N-SEA – the Nordic Southeast Asia Network. The workshop takes place in Helsinki.

20. okt. 2015, kl. 16.00-18.00

Known and Unknown History Between Denmark and Korea

Korean Studies Seminars 2015 by Professor Yi T’ae-jin, Seoul National University.

20. okt. - 21. okt. 2015

Two talks by Jan Breman, University of Amsterdam

The first talk is titled Informalizing The Economy: The Return of the Social Question at a Global Level, and second Pauperism in India: Past and Present, is a talk on Prof. Breman's forthcoming book.

7. okt. 2015, kl. 14.00-17.00

Peter Marcus Kristensen forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling ved Institut for Statskundskab

Titel: "Rising Powers in the International Relations Discipline: Sociological Inquiries into a Dividing Discipline and the Quest for Non-Western Theory"

6. okt. 2015, kl. 15.00-17.30

Roundtable Discussion: Assessing the state of EU-Taiwan relations

Open roundtable discussion organized by the ThinkChina Working Group on Politics.

6. okt. 2015, kl. 10.30-12.00

India-EU partnership and its significance in the 21st century world

Public talk by Anand Sharma, former Union Cabinet Minister in charge of Commerce and Industry and Textiles in the Government of India, and since June 2014 Deputy Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.

5. okt. 2015, kl. 14.00-16.00

CANCELLED - ThinkChina roundtable discussion: How to stabilise Sino-U.S. relations?

With Professor Xiong Zhiyong, China’s Foreign Affairs University (Beijing) - one of China’s most prominent scholars on Sino-U.S. relations and China’s foreign policy and particularly well-informed about Beijing’s foreign policy priorities.

29. sept. 2015, kl. 9.00-16.30

ADI research day

Research presentations and discussions.

18. sept. 2015, kl. 13.30-15.15

Making a spectacle of fisheries: Framing sovereignty in the South China Sea

Lecture by Edyta Roszko, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. 

14. sept. 2015, kl. 15.00-17.00

ChinaTalks: China's Foreign Policy - A New Normal?

In the ChinaTalk "China's Foreign Policy - a new normal?", Marc Lanteigne, Senior Research Fellow, NUPI, will discuss the recent trends in China's foreign policy under Xi Jinping.

14. sept. 2015, kl. 13.30-15.00

CRIC Research Seminar: Embracing Concurrent Realities. Revisiting the Relationship between Human Rights and Conflict Resolution

CRIC invites to the research seminar “Embracing Concurrent Realities. Revisiting the Relationship between Human Rights and Conflict Resolution” with Michelle Parlevliet, soon to be postdoc and affiliated researcher at CRIC.

11. sept. 2015, kl. 10.00-12.00

Discussion: New Subaltern Politics

Centre for Global South Asian Studies invites you to a discussion on New Subaltern Politics edited by Alf Gunvald Nielsen and Srila Roy and published by Oxford University Press in 2015.

18. aug. 2015, kl. 9.15-11.00

Transcultural Urban Creativity and Activism in Hong Kong

Public lecture by Minna Valjakka, Ph.D. of the Academy of Finland. Part of the international summer school Urban Culture in Theory and Action

18. aug. 2015, kl. 11.15-13.00

Urban Renewal and Cultural Imagination in Shanghai

Public lecture by Lena Maria Sheen, Assistant Professor at NYU Shanghai.
Part of the international summer school Urban Culture in Theory and Action

17. aug. 2015, kl. 16.00-17.30

Seminar: How to drive your business with public affairs/government relations in China

Peter Yan, Public Affairs Director of Rockwool China, will provide a rare and personal insight into his experiences with PA/GR and qualify them in the context of ‘doing business in China’. 

14. aug. 2015, kl. 9.30-17.00

The New China: Gender, Class and Everyday life

This seminar focuses on significant intersections of gender, class and new forms of life in 21st century China.

13. aug. 2015

NordMedia: Media Presence – Mobile Modernities

Panel on "Media and Communication in Asia in early 21 century: Changes, Continuities, and Challenges"

12. aug. 2015, kl. 10.00-12.30

ChinaTalks: Professor Wei Ran

Professor Wei Ran on general trends, breakthroughs and enduring challenges in communications research across Asian nations during the dawn of the “Asian Century.”

26. juni 2015, kl. 16.15-17.15

Keynote lecture by Professor Michael Herzfeld

As part of the 7th Intl. ADI Conference Food, Feeding, and Eating in and out of Asia Professor Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, will give a keynote lecture on When is Food Ethnic and What does that Imply? Reproducing Inequalities in the Framing of Asian Cuisines.

26. juni 2015, kl. 13.15-16.00

Mongolia as Theory

Is Mongolia becoming an anthropological empire, and should it? Informal roundtable with presentations by Prof. Manduhai Buyandelger (MIT) and Dr. Gregory Delaplace (Nanterre).

25. juni 2015, kl. 14.00-15.00

Keynote lecture by Dr Madhusree Mukerjee

As part of the 7th Intl. ADI Conference Food, Feeding, and Eating in and out of Asia Dr. Madhusree Mukerjee will give a keynote lecture on The Imperial Roots of Hunger.

25. juni 2015, kl. 13.00

Returning to the Forest. Shamanism, Landscape and History among the Duha of Northern Mongolia

Benedikte Møller Kristensen defends her PhD thesis.

24. juni 2015, kl. 10.30-11.30

Keynote lecture by Professor Paul Freedman

As part of the 7th Intl. ADI Conference Food, Feeding, and Eating in and out of Asia Professor Paul Freedman, Yale University, will give a keynote lecture on Asian Restaurants in London and New York.

24. juni - 26. juni 2015

ADI conference: Food, Feeding, and Eating in and out of Asia

The 7th annual international ADI conference "Food, Feeding, and Eating In and Out of Asia" takes place at the University of Copenhagen on 24-26 June 2015. The conference will feature distinguished keynote speakers as well as interdisciplinary panels.

16. juni 2015, kl. 15.00

Halfdan Siiger og Bodo-stammen i Assam

Invitation til åbning af udstillingen Halfdan Siiger og Bodo-stammen i Assam, Indien.

16. juni 2015, kl. 11.00

Professor Willy Lam: The Rise of Xi Jinping and the Closing of the Chinese Mind

Prof. Willy Lam guests NIAS to give a lecture based on his latest publication Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping - Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?

15. juni 2015, kl. 10.15-12.00

ChinaTalks: Dr. Zhao Quansheng

"The New Type of US-China Relations: A Dual Leadership Structure in Asia Pacific"

12. juni - 13. juni 2015

Inequity and Urbanism in the Global South

Centre of Global South Asian Studies and the PhD programme at Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies are organising its 4th annual collaborative workshop for doctoral students at New York University. This time Amsterdam University has joined the NYU-Copenhagen initiative as well.

8. juni 2015, kl. 11.00-12.15

EPRU SEMINAR

Heiwai Tang, John Hopkins University. "Domestic Value Added in Exports: Theory and Firm Evidence from China"

4. juni 2015, kl. 9.30-11.00

ChinaTalks: Andrew Scobell

"China's Great Leap Outward: Hard and Soft Dimensions of a Rising Power"

27. maj 2015, kl. 13.00-15.00

Fieldwork seminar: South-South Mobilities: An ethnographic exploration of African migrants in contemporary Delhi

Fieldwork seminar with Bani Gill

13. maj 2015, kl. 16.00-18.00

Poetic Encounters: Hindi Meets Danish

Through a series of poetic translations to the danish, students of Modern South Asian Studies will present the work of renowned Hindi poet Shri Krishna Kumar Vidhyarthi

11. maj 2015, kl. 12.00-13.00

Asia brown bag lecture: Ildiko Beller-Hann

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture on Islam, legitimation, identity: Uyghur historical narratives from Eastern Xinjiang by Ildikó Bellér-Hann. 

8. maj 2015, kl. 17.00-19.00

Korean Studies Seminar: Does Confucianism matter in the study of Korea?

Korean Studies Seminar with Dr. Isabelle Sancho

8. maj - 9. maj 2015

Filmscreening + Masterclass: Ascan Breuer / Dokumentarisches Labor

8 May: Filmscreening "Jakarta Disorder" + "Paradise Later" (Trilogi Jawa I + II). 9 May: Masterclass with Ascan Breuer: Documentary as Lab: Dubious Documentary vs. Documentary of Truthiness

7. maj 2015, kl. 10.00-12.00

Korean Studies Seminar: Equivalences in Korean and English Languages

Korean Studies Seminar with lecture by Dr. Stefan Knoob

7. maj - 8. maj 2015

The Internal and External Constraints on Foreign Policy in India. Exploring Culture and Ethnic Sensitivities

NIAS and the Department of Political Science at the University of Aalborg invites you to attend a workshop on The Internal and External Constraints on Foreign Policy in India. Exploring Culture and Ethnic Sensitivities.

5. maj 2015, kl. 10.00-12.00

China Talks: Professor Bu Wei

"The Point is to Change It": Exploring the Theory and Practice of Action-oriented Communication Research in China

28. april - 29. april 2015

New India's World

Workshop on New India's World. An invitation to rethink the question of novelty.

27. april 2015, kl. 17.00-19.00

Korean Studies Seminars 2015: Can the Past Forget us? Historical Memory in Northeast Asia

Public lecture by Dr Jong Kun Choi, Yonsei University

27. april 2015, kl. 15.00-17.00

Seminar: China as a Rising Power in Asia and in the World

Centre for Military Studies has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar with professor and ambassador Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller on the subject  “China as a Rising Power in Asia and in the World”.

21. april 2015, kl. 12.00-13.00

Asia brown bag lecture: Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture on "Un-real Estate: The Social Life of Temporary Wealth in China" by Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

20. april 2015, kl. 14.30-18.00

Conference & job fair: Crack the China Code

How can employees with expertise on China-Denmark boost their business and career?

20. april 2015, kl. 14.00-15.30

From Ground Zero to Degree Zero: Akira as Origin and Oblivion

Guest lecture by Christopher Bolton Associate Professor, Williams College on Ōtomo Katsuhiro's cult anime film Akira

17. april 2015, kl. 13.00-14.15

Call for Participation in PhD workshop: Making sense of the field in Southeast Asia

PhD workshop in connection with the N-SEA workshop series “Demographic changes in Southeast Asia: Regional and international ramifications”.

16. april - 17. april 2015

N-SEA Workshop 16-17 April

Gender and generational transformations in Southeast Asia - the first of two workshops organized by the Nordic Southeast Asia network (N-SEA) and sponsored by NOS-HS.

26. marts 2015, kl. 20.00-22.00

Himlens Søn og Velstandsguden: Religion i Kinas historie

Foredrag v/ Bent Nielsen, lektor, Ph.d.

26. marts 2015, kl. 16.30

Farewell lecture and reception for Prof. Min Dongchao

Professor Min shares the insights she has gained through her two-year EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship at NIAS.

25. marts 2015, kl. 12.00-13.00

Asia brown bag lecture: Jong Kun Choi

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture entitled North Korea, an Impossible State? Why and How Sunshine Policy to North Korea deserves another chance after 7 years by Jong Kun Choi, Yonsei University, Korea.

20. marts 2015, kl. 10.00-12.00

Human Rights in China

Round table meeting on human rights in China and on the results which one NGO – Dui Hua – has achieved through interaction and negotiations with Chinese authorities over a period of 25 years.

19. marts 2015, kl. 15.15-16.45

China Talks: Social movements, corruption and Party-state responses in China

Two talks on The enigma of President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign by Li Lianjiang of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Defragmenting Authoritarianism: Online complaining, accountability and power concentration in China by Christian Göbel of the University of Vienna.

19. marts 2015, kl. 13.00-15.00

A Writer's Journey by Namita Gokhale

Public lecture by Namita Gokhale, author, founder and co-director of the worlds' largest annual literary event 'Jaipur Literary Festival'.

18. marts 2015, 10

Public Defence of PhD Thesis: Xiaowei Gui

Xiaowei Gui defends his PhD thesis entitled Handling of Small-Scale Protests in China. Process Dynamics and Outcomes.

16. marts 2015, kl. 17.00-19.00

Korean Studies Seminars 2015: Stories that Art Objects Tell

Lecture by Charlotte Horlyck, Lecturer in Korean Art History at SOAS, The University of London.

9. marts 2015, kl. 10.15-12.00

China Talks: Professor Amitav Acharya

"Taming China: Can Asia Overcome Chinese Dominance and Avoid Europe's Past?" by Professor Amitav Acharya, American University, Washington, DC. 

2. marts 2015, 12

Lunch seminar by Assistant Professor Jun Liu

12.00-13.00 at NIAS

27. febr. 2015, kl. 13.00-14.30

Lunch lecture by Prof. Li Xing

Professor Li Xing, Aalborg University, will give a lecture on Understanding the dialectics between hegemony and world order. The rising powers and the emerging world re-order.

25. febr. 2015, kl. 14.00-16.00

The Amritsar Massacre - Genealogy of Colonial Violence in British India

Public lecture by Kim Wagner, Senior Lecturer in British Imperial History, Department of History, Queen Mary University of London.

24. febr. 2015, kl. 10.15-12.00

China Talks: Professor Yuan Ren

"Migration and Low-Carbon Society: Factors associated with Migrants' Consumptive Carbon Emission in Urban China" by Yuan Ren, Professor of Demography and Urban Studies at Fudan University.

18. febr. 2015, kl. 12.00-13.00

Asia brown bag lecture: Kai He

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture on China’s Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy after the Cold War by Kai He, Associate Professor at the Dept. of Political Science.

5. febr. 2015, kl. 15.00

Gender and Islam in Indonesia

Public guest lecture by Nina Nurmila, Senior Lecturer at the State Islamic University (UIN) Bandung, Indonesia.

29. jan. 2015, kl. 9.30-16.15

(Un)common enclosures

Public seminar by the Globalization and Development Researcher Group, Dept. of Anthropology on 29 January 2015.

28. jan. - 30. jan. 2015

Practices of Order: Colonial and Imperial Projects

Keynote lectures by George Steinmetz, Mariana Valverde and Stephen Legg as part of a conference on practices developed by colonial states and empires in order to govern the behavior of their subject populations.

23. jan. 2015, kl. 14.00

Ph.d. forsvar ved Karina Märcher Dalgas

Karina Märcher Dalgas forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling "Au Pair Trajectories. Family relations, self-making and migratory endeavors among Filipinas in Denmark" ved Institut for Antropologi.

15. jan. 2015, kl. 12.15-13.15

The Intergroup Relations Model and its Relevance for Asian-European Interaction

Lunch lecture at NIAS by Thomas E. Malloy, Professor of Psychology at Rhode Island College.

12. jan. 2015, kl. 13.00

PhD defence by Michael Ulfstjerne

Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne defends his PhD thesis titled Un-real Estate: The Social Life of Temporary Wealth in China.

7. jan. 2015, kl. 12.30-13.15

Four more years for Abe

Lunch lecture at NIAS by freelance journalist Asger Røjle Christensen.

10. dec. 2014, kl. 9.00-16.30

Law and Transitional Society: Chinese and Global Perspective

Conference on the Chinese legal system's response to social transition and the role China plays in the global legal environment.

5. dec. 2014, kl. 8.30-19.30

Financing the future - Analytical and policy challenges in Europe, China and in an interdependent world

International conference in honour of Niels Thygesen "Financing the future - Analytical and policy challenges in Europe, China and in an interdependent world". The conference will bring together academic, central bank and other financial sector economists working in areas of macroeconomics and finance.

2. dec. 2014, kl. 14.00-16.00

State Failure and Civil Society Efforts in Addressing Historical Injustice in Indonesia

Public guest lecture by Dr. Vannessa Hearman, Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney.

2. dec. 2014, kl. 10.15-12.00

Who can be killed with impunity and who cannot be impugned in Thailand

Public guest lecture by Tyrell Haberkorn, Department of Political and Social Change at the School of International, Political, and Strategic Studies, Australian National University.

26. nov. 2014, kl. 17.00-19.00

Grundtvig's Dream has come true in Korea

Korean Studies Seminar 2014 at Copenhagen University by Ambassador Young-sam Ma, Embassy of the Republic of Korea (Denmark).

20. nov. 2014, kl. 13.15-15.00

Yiwu: Arab Supermarket or Global Trading Centre? Perspectives from the Afghan Diaspora

Public guest lecture by Magnus Marsden, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex, on the significance of the Chinese city Yiwu for the global trade in low-grade commodities.

18. nov. 2014, kl. 12.00-13.00

Lunch lecture by Dr Atreyee Sen

Lunch lecture by Dr Atreyee Sen, University of Manchester, on Torture and laughter: Political incarceration and the art of performing happiness in an urban Indian prison.

12. nov. 2014, kl. 12.00-13.00

Asia brown bag lecture: Ravinder Kaur

ADI and NIAS invite you to a lunch lecture on Remixing History - Some Notes from Post-Exotic India by Ravinder Kaur from the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

11. nov. 2014, kl. 13.00

PhD defence by Nikolaj Vendelbo Blichfeldt

Nikolaj Vendelbo Blichfeldt defends his PhD thesis "Making Sense of Climate Change - Encounters with Low-Carbon Life in an Urban Community in China".

6. nov. - 7. nov. 2014

PhD course: Comparative Studies in Migration and Memory

Students with varied disciplinary interests from across the humanities and social sciences are welcome to attend. Registration deadline: 3^rd October. Abstract submission deadline: 24 October.

5. nov. 2014, kl. 15.00-17.00

Lecture on the early Buddhist ideas about "final liberation"

How only Buddhists can stop thinking and get away with it: a theory of ‘the attainment of cessation’ (nirodha-samāpatti) in early Buddhist literature. By Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol

28. okt. - 31. okt. 2014

Sustainable City Development: Theories, methods, challenges, and experiences in China and the Nordic countries

Second Urban Governance for Sustainable Cities Network (UGN) research workshop combined with PhD training. The focus is on environmental and sustainable governance innovations in urban regions in China and the Nordic countries.

24. okt. 2014, kl. 16.15-17.00

Keynote lecture by Willem van Schendel

As part of the 6th Intl. ADI Conference Intra-Asian Connections: Interactions, flows, landscapes Professor Willem van Schendel will be giving a keynote lecture entitled "Mapping Quirky Linkages: Asia beyond the continental straitjacket".

23. okt. 2014, kl. 16.15-17.00

Keynote lecture by Adam T. Smith

As part of the 6th Intl. ADI Conference Intra-Asian Connections: Interactions, flows, landscapes, Professor Adam T. Smith delivers a keynote lecture entitled "Barbarians, Backwaters, and the Civilization Machine: Integration and Interruption Across Asia's Early Bronze Ages."

22. okt. 2014, kl. 15.15-16.00

Keynote lecture by Shalini Randeria - cancelled!

Cancelled - As part of the 6th Intl. ADI Conference "Intra-Asian Connections: Interactions, flows, landscapes" Professor Shalini Randeria will give a keynote lecture entitled "Travelling norms and transnational entanglements".

22. okt. 2014, kl. 10.45-11.45

Keynote lecture by Prasenjit Duara

As part of the 6th Intl. ADI Conference Professor Prasenjit Duara will give a keynote lecture entitled Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Cosmopolitan Theory.

22. okt. - 24. okt. 2014

Intra-­Asian Connections: Interactions, Flows, Landscapes

The 6th annual International ADI Conference spans three days and features distinguished keynote speakers as well as ten interdisciplinary panels emphasizing intra-Asian connections.

13. okt. - 17. okt. 2014

8th Annual NNC Conference and PhD Course: A Multitude of Encounters with Asia - Gender Perspectives

The 8th Annual NNC Conference and PhD course will take place from 13-17 October 2014 at the University of Iceland. Deadline for submitting abstracts: 30 June 2014.

8. okt. 2014, kl. 14.15-16.00

Guest lectures by Daniel A. Bell and Xiao Jialing

Two leading specialists on Chinese affairs, Dr. Daniel A. Bell from Tsinghua University in Beijing and Dr. Xiao Jialing from Fudan University in Shanghai will share their perspectives on China’s new forms of governance and foreign policy process.

7. okt. 2014, kl. 10.00-12.00

Caste in Contemporary India by Surinder Singh Jodhka

Centre of Global South Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to a debate seminar to release a new book on Caste in Contemporary India by Surinder Singh Jodhka.

3. okt. 2014, kl. 13.15-15.00

Confucianism to Save the World! China Talk by Dr. Bai Tongdong

Confucianism to save the world! The cultural messages of a rising China, and how a Confucian hybrid regime can address issues that democracies are not structured to  address.

2. okt. 2014, kl. 12.00-13.00

Asia brown bag lecture: Ayo Wahlberg

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture on Routinising reproductive technologies in China by Ayo Wahlberg, Dept. of Anthropology.

30. sept. 2014, kl. 14.15-16.00

Restless Urban Landscapes in China - China Talk by Dr. Shen Jie

Restless urban landscapes in China - Examining the effects of urbanization and urban lifestyles in post-reform China 

25. sept. - 26. sept. 2014

Southern Futures: Thinking Through Emerging Markets

Two-day workshop that critically traces the idea and the moment of 'emerging markets' within the broader history of the South. Leading international scholars will attend, among others John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff, Achille Mbembe, David Goldberg, and Keith Hart.

16. sept. 2014, kl. 12.30-14.00

The European Union's Pivot to Asia

Guest lecture by Professor Philomena Murray, University of Melbourne.

12. sept. - 14. sept. 2014

Cultural Connections Between ancient Mesopotamia and India

Three-day conference on Mesopotamia, the 'land between the rivers'.

11. sept. 2014, kl. 12.00-13.00

Asia brown bag lecture: Anders Blok

NIAS and ADI invite you to another brown bag lecture on Asia. Worlding cities through their climate projects? Urban ecological experiments in Europe and Asia by Anders Blok, Dept. of Sociology.

10. sept. 2014, kl. 13.15-15.00

China Talks: Ou Ning

"Bishan Project: Cultural Production and Social Engineering". Ou Ning, Chinese thinker, artist, editor, and activist will give a talk about Bishan Commune, an art community founded by him in 2010, where artists and intellectuals advocate for ruralism and anarchism.

4. sept. 2014, kl. 13.00-15.00

Consumer Citizenship, Food Practices and Social Aspirations

Public guest lecture by Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi. Organized by the Centre of Global South Asian Studies.

25. aug. 2014, kl. 14.15-16.00

China Talks: Dr. Shen Yifei

"The iFamily: Self, Family and State in the Risk Society" by Dr. Shen Yifei, Department of Sociology, Fudan University.

14. aug. 2014, kl. 12.30-13.30

Harmony in Sino-Western Joint Ventures in China: the Role of Guanxi and Constructive Controversy

Lunch lecture at NIAS by Dr. Nancy Chen, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

4. aug. - 15. aug. 2014

Summer School: The Chinese Dream

Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Contemporary China. Summer School at the University of Copenhagen (week 32+33) organised by the Dept. of Anthropology and ADI.

14. juni 2014, kl. 17.45-19.00

Kina som politisk-moralsk udfordring på Folkemødet 2014

ThinkChina.dk er til stede ved Folkemødet i 2014 med en debat om Kina som politisk-moralsk udfordring.

11. juni 2014, kl. 15.00-17.30

China Talks: Professor Yu Kongjian

China Talks: Sustainable Urbanization in China

3. juni 2014, kl. 13.00-14.30

An Afternoon of Indian Music

An afternoon of Indian Music with Sitar and Tabla. Performance by Dharambir Singh.

2. juni 2014, kl. 15.00-16.30

The 2014 General Elections in India: Results and Consequences

Three India observers and a student of democracy will share their observations and expectations: Rasmus Fonnesbæk Andersen, Jeppe Matzen, Mrutyuanjai Mishra, and Kenneth Bo Nielsen.

27. maj 2014, kl. 15.00-18.30

Public guest lectures: Ideology Post Cold War

Two public guest lectures: Prof. Dr. Vedi Hadiz on Class and Islamic Populism and Dr. Carool Kersten on Indonesian and Islamic Studies.

27. maj 2014, kl. 13.00

PhD defence by Wenjie Li

Wenjie Li defends her PhD thesis "A Study of Chinese Translations and Interpretations of H.C. Andersen's Tales: History and Influence".

27. maj 2014, kl. 12.15-13.30

Confronting caste-based sexual violence in India

Discussion led by Asha Kowtal, the General Secretary of the All India Dalit Women’s Rights Forum, and filmmaker Thenmozhi Soundararajan.

27. maj - 28. maj 2014

PhD Seminar: Ideology Post Cold War

Leftism, Political Islam, Authoritarian Nationalism, and its Convergences/Divergences: the Future of Political Ideology in Indonesia and the Global South and its Regionalizations. NEW APPLICATION DEADLINE: 19 May 2014
The panel on 27 May and the guest lecture on 28 May with Prof. Dr. Vedi Hadiz (Murdoch University, Perth) and Dr. Carool Kersten (King's College, London) are open to the public. 

21. maj 2014, kl. 13.00-15.30

Confrontation in Asia? The United States, China and its neighbors

The US and China and the managing of the Asian regional order by Prof. Robert Ross, and alliance policies and the Asian regional order by Associate Prof. Wang Dong.

12. maj 2014, kl. 14.15-16.00

China Talks: Professor David Lampton

Coping with Calamities: China’s Leaders and the Dilemmas of Reform by Professor David Lampton, Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

12. maj 2014, kl. 10.15-12.00

Asian Security Dynamics: Energy Vulnerabilities, Military Capabilities and New Structures of Decision Making

Public guest lecture by Professor Michael Wesley organised in collaboration with the Australian Embassy. Michael Wesley is Professor of National Security and Director of the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies at the Australian National University. Kindly register by 9 May.

9. maj 2014, kl. 17.00

PhD Thesis Defence: Jacob Ki Nielsen

Public defence by Jacob Ki Nielsen: Fictions of Kinship: Representations of Multicultural Family-making in the South Korean Cine-and dramascape. Supervisor: Jørgen Delman

8. maj - 9. maj 2014

PhD seminar and public lectures: Place in the Global South

The PhD seminar aims to examine how everyday practices, political processes and power relations produce places in the Global South. Keynote lectures (open to the public) by: Ursula Rao, professor, Leipzig University & John Gledhill, professor, University of Manchester.

6. maj - 7. maj 2014

PhD Course: Environmental History and Identity

This PhD workshop is open for all those who are interested in looking at different cultural groups, and situating them within their surrounding landscape, and to rethink and reconceptualise the study of environment and identity. Keynote speaker: Dr Timothy P. Barnard, National University of Singapore.

5. maj - 7. maj 2014

Copenhagen Master Class in Gender and Body Dynamics

Professor Aihwa Ong, UC Berkeley, US, is keynote speaker and main discussant at the first Copenhagen Master Class in Gender and Body Dynamics. The course is composed of two lectures and two dialogue sessions over three days. The lectures are open to the public.

2. maj - 3. maj 2014

Urban Life Across the Globe - Provincializing 'the Western Metropolis'

Debates on ways to conduct nuanced and truly global studies of urban culture and politics. This can involve comparative urbanism, cross-regional and transnational perspectives as well as multi-disciplinary approaches.

30. april 2014, kl. 14.15-16.00

China Talks: Richard Herd

China Talks: How long can China's economy continue to grow rapidly? Demographic and environmental challenges.

25. april 2014, kl. 17.00-19.00

New Perspectives on Korean History: the Role of Elite Descent Groups

Korean Studies Seminar with Professor Martina Deuchler, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS, University of London.

9. april 2014, kl. 13.00-15.00

Human Rights and India's Diversity

Public guest lecture by Susan Vishvanathan, Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

8. april 2014, kl. 14.15-16.00

Gender Dynamics of Politics in Asia from a Comparative Perspective

Public guest lecture by Professor Chiharu Takenaka, College of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University.

5. april 2014, kl. 9.30-17.00

Sustainability Without Borders? Energy in Asia and the World

An international student conference about Asia’s current and future developments in sustainable energy, the manufacturing of goods and how demographic changes and consumer habits may affect these parameters.

3. april 2014, kl. 14.15-16.00

China Talks: Anthropologist Vanessa Fong

Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World - Seminar co-hosted by Dept. of Anthropology, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, and ThinkChina.dk

3. april 2014, kl. 13.15-15.00

China and gender group meeting

The China/gender group has researcher and PhD student members from the humanities, law and social sciences faculties, UCPH. The group meets to discuss the work of members and to exchange information on China/gender research related activities.

27. marts 2014, kl. 15.00-17.00

Indonesia's Democracy and the Road to Elections 2014

Public debate on the topic of Indonesia's elections in 2014 organised by the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Copenhagen in cooperation with NIAS and NISN. Kindly register by 25 March.

26. marts 2014, kl. 14.15-16.00

China Talks: Professor David Zweig

Staying in Power: Why the Communist Party of China Will Continue to Rule - gæsteforelæsning ved Professor David Zweig, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

25. marts 2014, kl. 15.00-17.00

Multiculturalism in Indonesia Today

Public guest lecture by Professor Azyumardi Azra organised jointly by the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia and ADI. NOTE: Change of venue

25. marts 2014, kl. 11.00-13.00

Roundtable: Is anyone listening? Authority and authenticity in a fragmented public sphere

Centre of Global South Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to a roundtable with: Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Kristin Veel, Nils Holtug, Ravinder Kaur (moderator), Thomas Blom Hansen, William Mazzarella.

25. marts - 27. marts 2014

Designing Robots - Designing Humans

A three-day public seminar on how robots will engage human beings as learners and cultural beings in the future. The first day of the seminar focuses on 'Robots in Japan'. Registration deadline: 21 March.

24. marts 2014, kl. 13.00

Who the Hell Do the Censors Think They Are?

Gæsteforelæsning om 'Publicity and Censorship in Bombay Cinema' ved William Mazzarella, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences, University of Chicago.

21. marts 2014, kl. 17.00-19.00

Trade, Sex, and Diplomacy

Boundaries and images of Japan in Chosŏn Korea and boundaries and images of Korea in Tokugawa Japan. Korean Studies Seminar with Dr James B. Lewis, University of Oxford.

21. marts 2014, kl. 14.00-16.00

The Sacrificial Self - Recasting Renunciation in South Asia

Centre of Global South Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to Thomas Blom Hansen's Honorary Professor Inaugural Lecture "The Sacrificial Self - Recasting Renunciation in South Asia".

21. marts 2014, kl. 14.00-16.00

The Rise of China's Military Forces: How much is enough?

Conference organised by the Centre for Military Studies. Presentations by analyst Dennis J. Blayko (former senior fellow, National Defense University in Washington D.C.), and Liselotte Odgaard, Royal Danish Defence College. 

14. marts 2014, kl. 17.00-19.00

K-Pop and the foundations of Korean Wave

Korean Studies Seminar with Professor Keith Howard, SOAS University of London.

13. marts 2014, kl. 13.15-15.00

The Future of the Left in Southeast Asia

Public guest lecture by Dr Walden Bello, senior analyst of the Bangkok-based institute Focus on the Global South and professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines.

7. marts 2014, kl. 13.15-14.30

Shinzo Abe og Japans nye nationalisme

Foredrag ved Asger Røjle Christensen, journalist, forfatter og foredragsholder. Asger er bosat i Japan og har fulgt udviklingen i Japan og Østasien i 35 år.

7. marts 2014, kl. 10.00-12.00

Fieldwork in the Humanities

Presentation by Mark Philip Stadler, PhD fellow, ToRS/ADI: "New Ideologues. The Development of Alternative Political Ideology and its Effects on Social Change in Post-Suharto Indonesia"

4. marts 2014, kl. 17.30-19.30

Japan's Emergence as a Musical Power: The Introduction of Western Music in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Japan

Associate professor Margaret Mehl from Japanese studies at ToRS examines the rise of western style classical music in Japan and the causes of Japan's worldwide influence on classical music today. Registration is required.

21. febr. 2014, kl. 17.00-19.00

Uses and Abuses of Ancient History in South Korea

Korean Studies seminar with Dr Vladimir Tikhonov (박노자) University of Oslo.

21. febr. 2014, kl. 16.00-18.00

Ise - Japan's Ise Shrines - Ancient yet New

Foredrag ved Svend M. Hvass om Japans Shinto Helligdom i Ise, som bliver genopbygget i tro kopi hvert 20. år. Hvass har som eneste udlænding haft mulighed for at følge den meget ritualiserede genopbygningsproces på nært hold.

20. febr. 2014, kl. 19.30-22.00

Religion og Filosofi - på tværs

Paneldebat med udgangspunkt i fire forskellige kulturkredse: den arabiske, indiske, kinesiske og vesteuropæiske. Paneldeltagere: Peter Westergaard, Bent Nielsen, Erik R. Sand & Joshua A. Sabih.

3. febr. 2014, kl. 15.30-18.00

Global Careers - MSc in Security Risk Management & MSc in Global Development

At this event you will have the chance to get more information about the two new Master's programmes in Security Risk Management and Global Development, hear about career opportunities and talk to the teachers from the two programmes. 

31. jan. 2014, kl. 13.00

Ph.d. forsvar - Stine Simonsen Puri

Stine Simonsen Puri forsvarer sin Ph.d. afhandling "Speculation in Fixed Futures - An Ethnography of Betting in between Legal and Illegal Economies at the Delhi Racecourse".

30. jan. 2014, kl. 13.00

Ph.d. forsvar - Maria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson

Maria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling "Connecting worlds of water. An ethnography of environmental on Tarawa, Kiribati" på Institut for Antropologi.

27. jan. 2014, kl. 16.00-17.30

Will the Northern Sea Route see a bright tomorrow?

NIAS hereby invites you to a lecture by Dr. Otsuka, a Japanese specialist on the Northern Sea Route (NSR). The event is a part of the ongoing NIAS research project "Asia in a Changing Arctic".

23. jan. - 24. jan. 2014

Japanese Photography from the Meiji period

2-dages seminar om japansk fotografi fra Meiji perioden

16. dec. 2013, kl. 15.00-17.00

US Rebalancing Policy and China-India Relations, including maritime issues (by invitation only)

Talk by Dr. Satu Limaye, director of the East-West Center in Washington, DC, on China-India relations in light of US rebalancing, followed by roundtable discussion.

12. dec. 2013, kl. 10.15-12.00

Law Reform in Pakistan

Gæsteforelæsning ved Dr. Osama Siddique, Department of Law & Policy, Lahore University of Management Sciences.

10. dec. 2013, kl. 8.30-18.15

Law and Art: European And Global Perspectives

Workshop arrangeret af CECS, Det Juridiske Fakultet og ToRS, Det Humanistiske Fakultet.

5. dec. 2013, kl. 15.30-19.30

Emerging Priorities of the Xi-Li Administration

NOTICE: TODAY'S EVENT "EMERGING PRIORITIES OF THE XI-LI ADMINISTRATION" HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE STORM FORECAST 

5. dec. 2013, kl. 10.00-12.00

China's Overseas Resource Extraction

Seminar with Dr. Jill Shankleman: China’s growing demand for resources has led to large-scale investments in oil, gas, and mining industries across the world. But what are the social, political, and environmental challenges of these activities, and how are they being addressed?

4. dec. 2013, kl. 14.15-16.00

Dalit Political Mobilization and Cultural Identity Politics

Gæsteforelæsning ved Dr. Heinz Werner Wessler, Gæsteprofessor i Indologi, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, Uppsala Universitet.

26. nov. 2013, kl. 14.30-15.45

Beggars of Lahore - film screening by Sheba Saeed

Dr. Sheba Saeed, PhD from Birmingham University and director of the film will talk about her work and answer questions after the screening.

21. nov. 2013, kl. 14.15-17.00

Prophecy and Protest in the Age of Globalization

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor Torkel Brekke, Pembroke College, Oxford.

20. nov. 2013, kl. 16.15-17.00

Spinning a Yarn - A Tapestry of Danish Colonial Narratives?

Gæsteforelæsning ved Josefine Baark, Department of History and Art, University of Cambridge, arrangeret af ToRS og Tranquebar Initiativet, Nationalmuseet.

15. nov. 2013, kl. 14.00-16.30

Ph.d.-forsvar i statskundskab ved Christian Bayer Tygesen

Christian Bayer Tygesen forsvarer sin Ph.D.-afhandling "Who Guards the Guardians in Kabul? Afghanistan between autocracy, democracy, and state collapse".

7. nov. - 8. nov. 2013

Social Mobility and Inequality in post-reform India

International conference in Delhi on 7-8 November jointly organised by University of Copenhagen and University of Delhi.

6. nov. 2013, kl. 10.15-12.00

Agency and Social Change: What Value Heritage?

Public guest lecture by Professor Amareswar Galla, Executive Director of the International Institute for the Inclusive Museum. The lecture is organised by the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. All are welcome.

4. nov. 2013, kl. 15.15-16.45

The Idea of Science in Modern China

CECS is hosting a series of international lectures on Global Constitutional Struggles this autumn. Our second guest is Wang Hui, who will speak on The Idea of Science, the Reclassification of Knowledge and the Question of Culture in Modern China.

4. nov. - 8. nov. 2013

7th Annual NNC Conference

This year's NIAS/NNC conference and PhD course "The Power of Knowledge: Asia and the West" will take place at SDU on 4-8 November 2013. Deadline for submitting abstracts is 20 October 2013.

29. okt. 2013, kl. 10.15-12.00

Rabindranath Tagore's Rural Reconstruction Experiment: Present Intervention

Public guest lecture by Dr. Sujit Kumar Paul, Associate Professor at the Department of Lifelong Learning and Extension at Visva Bharati University.

25. okt. 2013, kl. 9.00-17.00

Concept India Competences

As part of the UCPH India Action Plan, Asian Dynamics Initiative invites academic and administrative staff at UCPH working with India to participate in the course Concept India Competences.

24. okt. 2013, kl. 11.15-13.00

Money, Marriage and Gender: Dowry in India

Gæsteforelæsning med Dr. Ranjana Sheel, Department of History, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Indien.

9. okt. 2013, kl. 13.15-15.00

Against the Consensus - Reflections on the Great Recession

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor Justin Lin, Peking University (Beida) arrangeret af DERG, Økonomisk Institut.

23. sept. 2013, kl. 14.30-17.30

The Balance of Power in Asia

The Centre for Military Studies invites you to participate in the seminar: "The Balance of Power in Asia".

10. sept. 2013, kl. 9.45

Copenhagen South Asia Workshop 2013

Annual Copenhagen South Asia Workshop (CSAW) on 10th September 2013 with keynote address by Professor Kavita Philip, University of California, Irvine and special session with Indian Ambassador to Denmark Niraj Srivastava.

6. sept. 2013, kl. 14.00

Tiltrædelsesforelæsninger

Fælles tiltrædelsesforelæsninger for Tine Gammeltoft, Henrik Vigh og Morten Axel Pedersen, der alle tre er blevet udnævnt professorer ved Institut for Antropologi i år.

2. sept. 2013, kl. 13.00-13.45

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Democracy in Japan: Attempting to Harmonize Diverse Voices

Guest lecture at NIAS by Mikiko Eto, Professor of Political Science, Hosei University.

20. aug. 2013, kl. 10.00

Building to feel - Space and emotion in Delhi in the 1840s

Guest lecture by Professor Dr. Margrit Pernau, Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.

11. juli 2013, kl. 13.00

Ph.d. forsvar - Katja Rangsivek

Katja Rangsivek, Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, forsvarer sin Ph.d. afhandling "TRAKUN, POLITICS AND THE THAI STATE".

2. juli 2013, kl. 11.00-14.00

Ph.D forsvar ved Nina Elisabeth Torm

Nina Elisabeth Torm forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling “Firms and Workers in Transition:
A Series of Micro Studies on Vietnam”.

17. juni 2013, kl. 9.15-11.00

China's cities and climate change

The workshop explores sustainable city development in China, presenting three cases from Hangzhou and Shanghai that relate to China’s attempted transition towards a low-carbon society. Registration is required.

13. juni - 14. juni 2013

Growth: Critical Perspectives from Asia

ADI's 5. internationale konference byder på hovedtaler ved Professor Danny Quah og Professor Edward Farmer samt en række tværfaglige paneler om green growth, cultural growth, economic growth og meget mere.

10. juni 2013, kl. 10.00-12.00

Guest Lecture: Queer Filmmaking and Queer Politics in Contemporary China

Public lecture by Dr Hongwei Bao, Lecturer in Asian Media, Nottingham Trent University, UK and visiting researcher at NIAS 10-14 June 2013. (New venue)

30. maj - 31. aug. 2013

Photo Exhibition: How to Win Elections in Indonesia?

Photo exhibition by Vera Altmeyer running from 30 May to 31 August 2013 in the Faculty Library of Social Sciences.

28. maj 2013, kl. 15.30-17.00

Kinas selvsikre sikkerhedspolitik?

Center for Militære Studier på Københavns Universitet inviterer til seminar om Kinas sikkerhedspolitik i anledning af den nyligt publicerede bog ”Kinas sikkerhedspolitik: stabilitet og spændinger”.

24. maj 2013, kl. 14.00

Ph.d. forsvar ved Rune Bolding Bennike

Afhandlingen der forsvares: "Governing the Hills. Imperial Landscapes, National Territories, and Production of Place between Naya Nepal and Incredible India"

23. maj 2013, kl. 16.00

Global Lectures - Ha-Joon Chang

Gæsteforelæsning i Global Lectures serien ved Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge University.   "23 thing they don’t tell you about capitalism - and what they mean for our economic prospects"

17. maj 2013, kl. 12.15-14.00

Pre-defence seminar: Fictions of Kinship. Representations of the Multicultural Turn in (S) Korean Cinema and TV Drama.

Most welcome to the third pre-defence seminar at ToRS where we will discuss 
Jacob Ki Nielsen’s project: Fictions of Kinship. Representations of the Multicultural Turn in (S) Korean Cinema and TV Drama. 

16. maj 2013, kl. 9.00-12.30

World Literature and the World of Literature

Offentlig forelæsning ved prof. Howard Goldblatt, University of Notre Dame og prof. Sylvia Lin, University of  Notre Dame i forbindelse med Ph.d.-kurset 'World Literature and the World of Literature'.

3. maj 2013, kl. 13.00-15.30

Late Neolithic, Multi-species Resettlement Camp as a template for 'Development'

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor James Scott, Yale University. I forbindelse med forelæsningen vil Professor Scott få overrakt "The Ester Boserup Prize for Research on Development" af Udviklingsminister Christian Friis Bach.

2. maj 2013, kl. 13.15

Double lecture by Surinder Jodhka and Anna Lindberg

CGSAS invites you to a double lecture: Indian Village in neoliberal times: Changing Economies, Power and Identities by Surinder Singh Jodhka, JNU and Paradise Limited: Marriage and Dowry in Kerala by Anna Lindberg, Lund.

29. april 2013, kl. 14.15

The Folk Memory Project: Introduktion og filmfremvisning med Wu Wenguang

Wu Wenguang, Kinesisk pioner på dokumentarfilmsområdet og medgrundlægger af Caochangdi Workstation i Beijing, præsenterer og viser film fra sit ‘Folk Memory Project’.

23. april 2013, kl. 12.30-14.00

Religious Extremism and Modernity - Mapping the New Pakistan

Gæsteforelæsning ved Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa arrangeret af Centre of Global South Asian Studies og Sasnet. BEMÆRK: ændret lokale

18. april 2013, kl. 9.00-10.30

Prospects for China's foreign policy

China has a new leadership, but what bearing will this have on Beijing's foreign policy priorities, if any? This talk by dr. Linda Jakobson, a leading scholar in the field, explores the prospects for China's post-transition foreign policy. 
Registration required.

18. april 2013, kl. 18.30

Between tradition and modernity: Socialist development among the Uyghurs of Xinjiang

Lektor Ildikó Bellér-Hann (Københavns Universitet) holder foredrag om Kinas tyrkiske folkeslag uighurerne på basis af helt nye feltarbejdsstudier.

18. april 2013, kl. 15.15-17.00

Newness, Ritual and Globalization in Urban Hindu Temple Publics

ADI og Tors inviterer til gæsteforelæsning med Tulasi Srinivas, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emerson College, Boston.

18. april - 19. april 2013

Network of South East Asian Studies

Et møde for danske forskere, der arbejder med Sydøstasien. Mødet er initieret af Oscar Salemink og Steffen Jensen som et første skridt på vejen til et "Scandinavian Network of South East Asian Studies". 

17. april 2013, kl. 14.00-17.00

China's Arctic ambitions

Conference on China's ambitions in the Arctic region with dr. Linda Jakobson, the East Asia Program Director at Lowy Institute for International Policy, as the keynote speaker, and a panel of scholars on issues pertaining to China and the Arctic. Registration is required.

16. april 2013, kl. 14.00-16.00

Copenhagen climate change seminar

Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed will give a talk on 'How can we build a carbon neutral world economy?'.

15. april 2013, kl. 14.00

Chinese media and the 4th estate

Gæsteforelæsning ved Ph.d. stipendiat Laura Dombernowsky, Institut for Kultur og Samfund, Asienstudier, Aarhus Universitet.

11. april 2013, kl. 9.15-11.00

Stranded Britons: Hong Kong and Falkland Islanders at Empire's End

Seminar "Stranded Britons: Hong Kong and Falkland Islanders at Empire's End" med Mark Hampton og Ezequiel Mercau.

8. april 2013, kl. 14.15-16.00

A Tale of Two Amnesties: 6 October 1976 and the misplacement of accountability in Thailand

Gæsteforelæsning ved Tyrell Haberkorn fra Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University.

4. april 2013, kl. 15.00-17.00

China's leadership and the consequences for China's political system

A leading scholar on human rights in China, Dr. Zhang Wei is the co-director of Institute of Human Rights at China University of Political Science and Law. Registration required.

2. april 2013, kl. 10.15-12.00

From World History to World Literature: Reflections on a New Comparative Method

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor Shu-mei Shih, UCLA. Alle er velkomne!

21. marts 2013, kl. 14.15-16.00

The Passion for God in Gendered Islamism

Seminar forud for Iram Asifs forsvar af Ph.d. afhandlingen "The Passion for God in Gendered Islamism. A Study of Education, Authority and Jihad in the Red Mosque and Jamia Hafsa in Urban Pakistan".

15. marts 2013, kl. 13.00-16.30

Centre for Advanced Migration Studies

Officiel åbning af Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) den 15. marts 2013 på det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet.

28. febr. 2013, kl. 14.00

Mumbai as Dreamscape: Poverty, Media, Property

Public lecture "Mumbai as Dreamscape: Poverty, Media, Property" , Prof. Arjun Appadurai, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University.

28. febr. - 2. marts 2013

Speculation in India: Imaginaries of Indian economies

Seminar addressing the aspects of speculation in India. Keynote address by Professor Arjun Appadurai, New York University.

27. febr. 2013, kl. 11.00-12.00

Low Carbon Green Growth Strategy In East Asia in Practice: A Critical Review

NIAS inviterer til seminar med Dr. Akihisa Mori, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Economics, Kyoto University.

26. febr. 2013, kl. 15.00

Materializing Culture: Design, Technology and Community in an Artisanal Textile from India

Gæsteforelæsning ved Aarti Kawlra, International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands.

20. febr. 2013, kl. 14.00-15.00

Asia and Europe Connected: Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia

Gæsteforelæsning ved Republikken Koreas ambassadør i Danmark, Dr. Byung H. Kim. Efterfølgende vil der være reception i Leifsgade.

7. febr. 2013, kl. 12.00-14.00

Narrativity and Indian Historiography

Indologi indbyder til endnu en gæsteforelæsning ved Anthony Cerulli, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, og Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris.

6. febr. 2013, kl. 15.00-17.00

Tradition-Making and Education in Modern Ayurveda

Gæsteforelæsning ved Anthony Cerulli, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, og  Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris.

29. jan. 2013, kl. 12.00-18.45

China Studies: PhD Workshop

Six PhD students present their papers on a number of subjects ranging from low-carbon life in Dongpingxiang to urban activists in rural China.

17. dec. 2012, kl. 16.00-17.45

ThinkChina.dk - Green Growth

ThinkChina.dk is organizing an event on development of renewable energy technologies and solutions in China and opens the floor to discussions on what Denmark's part in this process could be.

14. dec. 2012, kl. 13.00

De dansk-japanske kulturelle forbindelser 1873-1903

Professor mso Yoichi Nagashima, Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, Københavns Universitet, forsvarer sin doktorafhandling "De dansk-japanske kulturelle forbindelser 1873-1903".

13. dec. - 15. dec. 2012

Selective reproductive technologies – routes of routinisation and globalisation

Keynote speakers: Sarah Franklin, University of Cambridge - Lene Koch, Københavns Universitet - Rayna Rapp, New York University - Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner, University of Sussex.

11. dec. 2012, kl. 10.00-12.00

Chinese Literature and the Writings of Exile

Foredrag om "Chinese Literature and the Writings of Exile" ved den kinesiske forfatter Ma Jian.

7. dec. 2012, kl. 13.00

Ph.d. forsvar ved Peter Damgaard

Peter Damgaard forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling "Visions in Exile. Inroads to a 'Counter-System' of Contemporary Chinese Literature".

7. dec. - 8. dec. 2012

State regulation and social capital – comparative approaches to India and Denmark.

Workshop på ToRS den 7.-8. december. Abstracts modtages frem til 10. november 2012.

4. dec. 2012, kl. 14.00-16.00

Growth and Fall of Environmental Values

To foredrag om kinesiske tanker om klimaudfordringer i fortid og nutid ved hhv. lektor i Kinastudier Bent Nielsen og professor i Kinastudier Jørgen Delman.

3. dec. 2012, kl. 19.30

Foredragsrække om Kina

Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab inviterer dette efterår til en foredragsrække om Kina med bl.a. en række forskere fra ADI.

3. dec. 2012, kl. 15.00

Valg på kinesisk

Bliv klogere på kinesisk politik og landets nye ledere, når Københavns Universitet og Politiken inviterer til debat om det kinesiske magtskifte. Mød den kinesiske ambassadør Li Ruiyu, Folketingets formand og tidligere udenrigsminister Mogens Lykketoft, Kinaekspert og professor Jørgen Delman samt Kinakonsulent i DI Nis Høyrup Christensen.

29. nov. 2012, kl. 14.00-15.30

The Global Crisis and the Impact on Emerging Economics

Sustainability Science Centre inviterer til foredrag ved Dr. Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist of the World Bank. Tilmelding er nødvendig.

27. nov. - 30. nov. 2012

China's Economy and Society: Regional and global implications of a growing Chinese influence

Årlig NNC konference og Ph.d. kursus arrangeret af NIAS, CEMAT og Department of Management and International Business, Aalto University School of Business.

22. nov. 2012, kl. 15.15-17.00

Shadows, Zombies, and Animated Weapons in Kashmirian Tantra

Guest lecture by David Gordon White, University of California, Santa Barbara.

20. nov. 2012, kl. 15.15-17.00

On Food and Commensality

Præsentationer ved Manpreet K. Janeja og Stig Toft Madsen.

16. nov. 2012, kl. 14.00-16.00

Seminar on "The Act of Killing"

Seminar at DIIS on the documentary "The Act of Killing". Note: The film will not be screened at the seminar.

15. nov. 2012, kl. 19.30

Guest lecture by Dr. Pattana Kitiarsa

Of Men and Monks: Boxing-Buddhism Nexus and the Production of National Manhood in Contemporary Thailand by Dr. Pattana Kitiarsa, National University of Singapore, jointly hosted by the Asian Dynamics Initiative and the Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

30. okt. 2012, kl. 18.00-19.30

Kina i forandring

Debatrække på dagbladet Information med en lang række af KU's Kina forskere. Kom bag om klichéerne om det moderne Kina for 50-100 kr. pr. næse.

29. okt. 2012, kl. 14.15-15.30

NATO after Afghanistan

Seminar på Center for Militærstudier. Alle er velkomne. Registrering er nødvendig.

26. okt. 2012, kl. 14.15-16.00

Mini-course on Ayurvedic Medicine in India (part III)

The treatments used in Ayurveda, with some practical demonstration of basic diagnosis techniques, where students can participate.

25. okt. 2012, kl. 15.15-17.00

Mini-course on Ayurvedic Medicine in India (part II)

On the Ancient Indian Massage Technique "Chavuttithirumal". NOTE: New venue

23. okt. 2012, kl. 15.15-17.00

On Pilgrimages and Chariot Festivals

Præsentationer ved ved Erik R. Sand og Peter B. Andersen.

22. okt. 2012, kl. 13.15-15.00

Mini-course on Ayurvedic Medicine in India (part I)

Basic principles and the history of Ayurveda in India.

12. okt. 2012, kl. 18.00-21.30

Forskerdebat på Kulturnatten d. 12. oktober

En bæredygtig fremtid kræver langt mere end teknologiske løsninger. Vores kultur, historie og samfund er lige så vigtig for, hvilken retning vi bærer verden i. Hør forskerne dykke helt ned i de værdier, holdninger og politiske strategier, der i virkeligheden afgør, om vi tør ændre vores samfund. Fire debatoplæg sætter fokus på hver sin verdensdel fra Arktis til Asien, og tager fat om nældens rod – os mennesker og vores indstilling til en bæredygtig fremtid.

5. okt. 2012, kl. 14.00

Governing the Global Economy: States, Networks, and the Rise of East Asian Economies

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor Henry Wai-chung Yeung, PhD, Professor of Economic Geography, National University of Singapore.

3. okt. 2012, kl. 14.00-16.00

Writing Transcultural Spaces

Seminar og oplæsninger med forskere i indisk litteratur samt to indiske forfattere Mridula Garg og Githa Hariharan. Arrangementet er en del af India Today/Copenhagen Tomorrow programmet.

25. sept. 2012, kl. 9.30-12.30

Workshop on Japanese research tools

Workshop on Japanese online research tools at the Faculty Library of Humanities, Amager, Copenhagen. The workshop will be a demonstration of three of the most important Japanese databases and a presentation of Japanese e-books.

24. sept. 2012, kl. 16.00-18.00

India: Literature Now

I forbindelse med India Today/Copenhagen Tomorrow programmet inviterer Københavns Universitet og Gyldendal til et arrangement, hvor tre indiske og tre danske forfattere diskuterer litteraturens rolle i dagens Indien og Danmark.

20. sept. 2012, kl. 14.00-16.00

The clash of nationalisms in Northeast Asia

Roundtable event on the 2012 Diplomatic Dispute between China-­Japan at the Department of Political Science.

17. sept. 2012, kl. 9.30-17.30

Copenhagen South Asia Workshop 2012

Worlds of South Asia er den fjerde i rækken af Copenhagen South Asia Workshops. Der kan indsendes abstracts frem til den 5. juni 2012.

11. sept. 2012, kl. 15.15-17.00

On Ayurveda and Yoga

Dobbelt-foredrag ved Ken Zysk og Anusuya Kumar.

5. sept. 2012, kl. 15.00

PhD defense - Dan Hirslund

Dan Hirslund forvarer sin Ph.d. afhandling "Sacrificing Youth - Maoist Cadres and Political Activism in Post-war Nepal".

3. sept. 2012, kl. 14.00-17.00

Imaginaries of Modern India

Seminar "Imaginaries of Modern India" på Aarhus Universitet med Saloni Mathur, UCLA og Ravinder Kaur, Københavns Universitet.

31. aug. - 1. sept. 2012

Workshop: Sikh Identity Formations

Nordcorp workshop over to dage om "Sikh Identity Formations" fra den 31. august. Første dag er åben for alle.

29. aug. - 30. aug. 2012

Spectacle of Globality

 Two-day workshop addressing the social-political processes at work in shaping India as a global power.

10. aug. 2012, kl. 14.00

The Rise of China and how to deal with it

Åben forelæsning på IFS ved Shogo Suzuki, University of Manchester “How to assess the Rise of China empirically and theoretically? Chinese soft power – is there a Beijing model being promoted?” og Tim Mondorf “6 truths from 2006 - the search for a post-financial crisis paradigm for globalization and interaction with China”.

27. juni 2012, kl. 13.00-15.00

The Innovation of a Chinese School of IR

Seminar "'You need to do something that the Westerners cannot understand' - The Innovation of a Chinese School of IR" by Peter Marcus Kristensen and Ras Tind Nielsen.

25. juni - 26. juni 2012

The Internationalisation of Dalit and Adivasi Activism

Luisa Steur, Institut for Antropologi ved KU, er medarrangør af en interdisciplinær konference om 'Internationlisation of Dalit and Adivasi activism', der finder sted i London. Frist for tilmelding er 18. juni 2012.

19. juni 2012, kl. 10.00-12.00

Demokrati i Burma: Er reformerne reelle?

Offentlig debat om de demokratiske reformer i Burma/Myanmar med deltagelse af højtstående repræsentanter fra den burmesiske regering og det burmesiske TV eksilmedie Democratic Voice of Burma.

13. juni 2012, kl. 14.15-16.00

Political Functions of Security Speech in the People’s Republic of China

Gæsteforelæsning ved Juha Vuori, University of Turku om "Political Functions of Security Speech in the People’s Republic of China" arrangeret af CAST.

11. juni 2012, kl. 16.00

Burma book launch

Book launch at NIAS Press: The Authority of Influence : Women and Power in Burmese History by Jessica Harriden.

23. maj 2012, kl. 15.00-17.00

Systemkritiske oversættelser af Jeju 4.3 Massakren i Korea

Koreastudier/ToRS afholder et spændende foredragsarrangement om: 'Systemkritiske oversættelser af Jeju 4.3 Massakren i Korea’ ved billedkunstner Jane Jin Kaisen.

10. maj - 12. maj 2012

Kashgar Revisited

Tre-dages workshop fra 10.-12. maj i anledning af 10 års jubilæet for Ambassadør Gunnar Jarrings død.

8. maj 2012, kl. 19.30

Spøgelsesbyer i Kina

Foredrag i Dansk-Kinesisk Forening af Michael Ulfstjerne tirsdag den 8. maj 2012 kl. 19.30 i Forsamlingshuset, Kulturstaldene, Onkel Dannys Plads, 1700 København V.

2. maj - 3. maj 2012

Rising Asia, Anxious Europe

International ADI konference på Københavns Universitet 2.-3. maj 2012. 

29. marts 2012, kl. 12.00-13.30

Japan's African Policy: An Overview of A Century of Japan-Africa Relations

NIAS og Nitteian Kenkyukai inviterer til workshop om "Japan's African Policy: An Overview of a Century of Japan-Africa Relations" med Professor Jun Morikawa, Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan.

12. marts 2012, kl. 12.15

Situationen i Tibet

Lunch meeting with Dr. Robert Barnett, Adjunct Professor and Director of Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University.

24. febr. 2012, kl. 14.00-17.00

Ph.d. forsvar ved Jesper Schlæger

Jesper Schlæger, Institut for Statskundskab, forsvarer sin Ph.d. afhandling "E-government in China. Digital information and communication technologies in local government organisational reforms in Chengdu".

23. febr. - 24. febr. 2012

3 gæsteforelæsninger ved seniorforsker Geir Heierstad

Forelæsningerne "Pakistan - nation building in the shadow of Bhāratīya Thalasēnā", "India - er "political society" makt for de fattige?" og "India - jakten på det sivile samfunn og dets framtid" finder sted den 23.-24. februar. 

21. febr. 2012, kl. 15.15

SOHR DAMB: A New Perspective on Prehistoric Baluchistan

Gæsteforelæsning ved Dr. Ute Franke, Islamic Museum Berlin.

20. febr. 2012, kl. 15.15

Archaeological Research and Heritage Projects in Afghanistan: Ancient Herat and Bagh-e Babur

Gæsteforelæsning ved Dr. Ute Frank, Islamic Museum Berlin.

20. jan. 2012, kl. 13.30-16.10

The Status and Challenges of Economic Integration in Europe and Asia: with focus upon Regional Currency Cooperation

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor Eiji Ogawa, Vice President, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

19. dec. 2011, kl. 10.00-13.00

Demystifying China's Economy

Reflektionsgruppen Kina afholder seminar med Justin Lin, Chief Economist og Senior Vice President for World Bank, der vil tale om "Demystifying China's Economy". Arrangementet er kun for inviterede.

12. dec. 2011, kl. 15.00-15.45

The making of a new folk art

Forelæsning ved Associate professor Roma Chatterji, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi.

9. dec. 2011, kl. 14.00-17.00

Ph.d. forsvar ved Mona Kanwal Sheikh

Mona Kanwal Sheikh forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling  "Guardians of God. Understanding the religious violence of Pakistan's Taliban".

8. dec. 2011, kl. 17.00-18.30

Sacralizing the State and De-Sacralizing Islam: Islamists and the Democratic Deficit in Pakistan

Roundtable diskussion om "Sacralizing the State and De-Sacralizing Islam: Islamists and the Democratic Deficit in Pakistan" med Farhat Haq, Professor of Political Science, Monmouth College.

8. dec. 2011, kl. 15.15-16.30

Postsocialist Publishing: Internet Literature in China

Michel Hockx, SOAS, London, gæster Cross-Cultural Seminar-rækken med et paper om "Postsocialist Publishing: Internet Literature in China".

8. dec. 2011, kl. 13.15-14.30

Gæsteforelæsning: Hip Hop i Japan

Gæsteforelæsning "Hip-hop Japan: Creativity and Identity within Cultural Globalisation" ved Kiku Day, Ph.d., musiketnolog ved SOAS, University of London.

7. dec. 2011, kl. 19.30

Køn og kultur i Kina

Foredrag i Dansk-Kinesisk Forening af lektor Denise Gimpel, Københavns Universitet.

7. dec. 2011, kl. 13.15-15.00

What should we Learn from China?

Gæsteforelæsning ved Dr. Josef Gregory Mahoney, East China Normal University.

25. nov. 2011, kl. 11.15-13.00

Krudt og kugler i Kina

Åbent foredrag ved forfatter Simon Rom Gjærø "Krudt og kugler i Kina: Dansk våbenekspert i tjeneste hos Kinas mest magtfulde krigsherre i de kaotiske 1920ere". Efter foredraget vises dokumentarfilm.

24. nov. 2011, kl. 15.15-16.30

Shaping modern knowledge on Islam

I næste Cross-Cultural Seminar på ToRS præsenterer Dietrich Jung, Syddansk Universitet, et paper om "Max Weber and Sheikh Ahmad ibn Zayni al-Dahlan: Shaping modern knowledge on Islam".

24. nov. 2011, kl. 13.00-15.00

Kina: Ny magt i Arktis. Muligheder og udfordringer for Rigsfællesskabet

Center for Militære Studier afholder seminar med Damien Degeorges om Kinas interesser i Arktis. Tilmeldingsfrist den 23. november kl. 12.

21. nov. - 22. nov. 2011

ADI Workshop 2011

To-dages workshop med udgangspunkt i de fire nye forskningstemaer: 'Urban Imaginaries and power in Asian mega-cities', 'Bodies and Boundaries', 'State, Society and Marginality', and 'Asia-Europe Encounters'.

18. nov. - 20. nov. 2011

Halfdan Siiger og den danske forskning i Centralasien

Konferencen den 18-20. november sætter fokus på Halfdan Siiger og den danske forskning i Centralasien. Konferencen afholdes i anledning af 100 års dagen for Siigers fødsel og er arrangeret af Aarhus Universitet, Københavns Universitet, Nationalmuseet og Moesgård Museum.

17. nov. 2011, kl. 15.15-16.30

Mapping national anxieties: Thailand's southern conflict

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor Duncan McCargo, University of Leeds. Efter forelæsningen er der reception i anledning af Professor McCargo's nye bog.

17. nov. 2011, kl. 13.15-14.30

Health Inequity and Democratic Deficit: Learning by India from India

Gæsteforelæsning ved Dr. Manabi Majumdar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

16. nov. 2011, kl. 13.15-15.00

Politics of Human Development in an Indian State

Gæsteforelæsning ved Dr. Manabi Majumdar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

16. nov. 2011, kl. 9.00-12.30

Japan Today: Challenges and Responses to Globalization

Symposium på CBS med Professor Toshiya Ozaki, Rikkyo University, Professor Takehiko Kariya, University of Oxford og Professor Anthony P. D'Costa, Asia Research Centre, CBS.

10. nov. 2011, kl. 15.15-16.30

Sacred Money. Faith and Finance in a Global Sufi Order

Cross-Cultural Seminar på ToRS ved Nils Bubandt, Professor (mso), Aarhus Universitet.

8. nov. 2011, kl. 16.00-17.00

Fra 1982 til 1Q84: Kvinde-narrativer i Murakamis forfatterskab

Gæsteforelæsning ved Gitte Marianne Hansen, Ph.d.-stipendiat i Japansk, University of Cambridge og Nordisk Institut for Asienstudier.

28. okt. 2011

Workshop on Queer Theory and Activism in China

Workshop på NIAS om Queer theory og Queer activism i Kina. Tilmelding senest den 21. oktober.

26. okt. 2011, kl. 12.15-13.00

From Pusher Street to Purulia: Legal Monism versus Legal Pluralism

Lunch lecture ved Stig Toft Madsen, Fil.Dr., Senior Research Fellow, NIAS. Alle er velkomne.

13. okt. 2011, kl. 15.15-16.30

Banking viability - reproduction and the sperm crisis in China

Ayo Wahlberg, Institut for Antropologi, Københavns Universitet gæster Cross-Cultural Seminars med et paper om "Banking viability - reproduction and the sperm crisis in China".

11. okt. 2011, kl. 10.15-12.00

Religious Charity, Secular Law, and NGO Regulation India

Gæsteforelæsning ved Erica Bornstein, Lektor i Antropologi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

10. okt. 2011, kl. 12.15-13.30

Buddhist Economics and Thailand's Sufficiency Economy

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor Donald K. Swearer, Harvard Divinity School.

6. okt. - 9. okt. 2011

Commensality and Social Organisation

Workshop on food, globalisation and identity organised by Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies.

4. okt. 2011, kl. 14.15-15.30

Gæsteforelæsning ved Penny van Esterik

Gæsteforelæsning "Hindsight, Oversight and Insight into Ban Chiang Neolithic Burial Pottery, northeast Thailand; a personal trajectory through interdisciplinary research in Southeast Asia" ved Penny van Esterik, Professor i Antropologi, York University. 

29. sept. 2011, kl. 15.15-16.30

Japanese Merchants of Culture

I serien Cross-Cultural Seminars vil Brian Moeran fra Copenhagen Business School præsentere et paper om "Japanese Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in Japan".

29. sept. 2011, kl. 13.15-14.30

Indian Economy under the Reforms: Growth, Poverty and Inequality, 1991 to 2010

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor Venkatesh Athreya om "Indian Economy under the Reforms: Growth, Poverty and Inequality, 1991 to 2010".

27. sept. 2011, kl. 13.00-16.00

Simple Interactions. Lydkunst fra Japan

Artist Talk Simple Interactions. Lydkunst fra Japan ved Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab.

23. sept. 2011, kl. 14.00-17.00

Ph.d. forsvar ved Winnie Bothe

Winnie Bothe forsvarer afhandlingen "Forming Local Citizens in Bhutan: The Traditionalization of Participation - Empowerment, Domination or Subjugation?"

23. sept. 2011, kl. 13.00

Ph.d. forsvar ved Jens Tue Sejrup

Jens Sejrup fosvarer sin Ph.d. afhandling "Returns of the Other. The Roles of Repetition and Representation in Mass Media Coverage of Japan-Taiwan Relations".

22. sept. - 24. sept. 2011

Indonesian Minorities - Rights, Plights and Positions

Nordic Indonesia Studies Network (NISN) afholder sin tredje workshop, denne gang om Indonesiens minoriteter.

19. sept. 2011, kl. 10.00-16.00

Rabindranath Tagore

Konference i anledning af 150 års jubilæet for Rabindranath Tagores fødsel (1861-1941). Tagore var indisk forfatter, komponist, filosof, maler og musiker. I 1913 vandt han Nobels litteraturpris.

15. sept. 2011, kl. 15.15-16.30

Cross-Cultural Seminar: Oscar Salemink

Seminar ved Oscar Salemink, Professor i Antropologi, Københavns Universitet, om "Sex and the Temple: Interlocking categorizations of sexuality, gender and the sacred in post-secular Vietnam".

8. sept. - 10. sept. 2011

ETSG 2011 Copenhagen

European Trade Study Group (ETSG) afholder sin 13. konference i september i København.

22. aug. 2011, kl. 13.00-14.30

Urban imaginaries and power in Asian mega-cities

ADI og Jørgen Delman, Professor ved Kinastudier, inviterer forskere ved KU til et indledende møde om et nyt forskningsprojekt: "Urban imaginaries and power in Asian mega-cities".

18. aug. 2011, kl. 15.00-17.00

Kinesisk udenrigspolitik og den interne debat

Camilla T. N. Sørensen, Ph.d., Beijing taler om "Kinesisk udenrigspolitik og den interne debat". Efterfølgende kommentar ved Flemming Ytzen, Politiken og NIAS.

9. aug. 2011, kl. 18.30-21.00

Mindfulness - aftenforedrag

Mindfulness, tibetansk buddhisme og spiritualitet. En introduktion til videnskab og praksis om mestring af rastløse tanker med Alan Wallace og Peter Elsass.

6. juli 2011, kl. 14.30

Danish expeditions along the Silk Road

Offentlig forelæsning ved Dr.phil. Esther Fihl, Professor mso om "Danish expeditions along the Silk Road - Collecting objects from the Steppes to the High Pamirs 1896-1899".

4. juli 2011, kl. 15.00-15.45

Gæsteforelæsning ved Prof. Thomas Barfield

Prof. Thomas Barfield giver en forelæsning med titlen "The nomadic legacy in Central Asia: Empires, trade and political culture" i forbindelse med ADI's sommerskole om Centralasien.  

4. juli 2011, kl. 14.15-15.00

Gæsteforelæsning ved Prof. Bert Fragner

Prof. Bert Fragner giver i forbindelse med ADI's Centralasien sommerskole en forelæsning om "The Mongol Empire (13th and 14th centuries) - a starting point of 'Early Modern Times' in a global perspective?"  

4. juli - 15. juli 2011

ADI Summer School on Central Asia

ADI summer school on ‘History, Identity and Religion in Contemporary Central Eurasia' to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 04.07.2011 - 15.07.2011.

21. juni 2011, kl. 14.30-15.30

Crossing cultural borders then and now

Guest lecture "Crossing cultural borders then and now - In the fish market at Tranquebar and in the archive" by Professor Will Sweetman.

17. juni 2011, kl. 14.00-16.00

Tiltrædelsesforelæsning - Oscar Salemink

Institut for Antropologi og ADI inviterer til Professor Oscar Saleminks tiltrædelsesforelæsning "Framing Religion: The Human Rights Encounter and the Transformation of Religion in Vietnam".

10. juni 2011, kl. 13.00

Gæsteforelæsning ved Richard Upward

Gæsteforelæsning på Økonomisk Institut: "Quantity Restrictions and Price Adjustment of Chinese Textile Exports to the US" ved Richard Upward, University of Nottingham.

5. juni - 6. juni 2011

Ph.d. workshop "Writing Difference"

ADI afholder i samarbejde med New York University en Ph.d. workshop om "Writing Difference" for Ph.d. stipendiater ved de to universiteter.

30. maj - 31. maj 2011

A World of Translation

Forskerskolen for Regionale Studier arrangerer internationalt Ph.d. kursus, der ser på problemstillinger vedrørende 'oversættelse' fra teoretiske, empiriske og historiske vinkler. Læs mere om program, format og deadlines.

23. maj 2011, kl. 13.00-15.00

The worship of young virgin girls as goddesses in the secular state of Nepal

Gæsteforelæsning ved Michael Allen, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Sydney.

20. maj - 21. maj 2011

Challenging the Harmonious Society - Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China

Workshop om "Challenging the Harmonious Society - Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China". Denne workshop er et lukket arrangement for indbudte gæster.

19. maj 2011, kl. 20.00

Indo-pakistansk musikaften

Dansk Netværk for Pakistan Studier inviterer til musikaften med klassisk musik fra det indiske subkontinent. 

17. maj 2011, kl. 13.15

Ph.d forsvar ved Thao Thi Vu

Thao Thi Vu forsvarer sin Ph.d. afhandling "When Women Make "Houses": Female Labour Migration and Family Transition in Rural Vietnam". Institut for Geografi og Geologi.

9. maj 2011, kl. 14.00-15.30

Gao Xingjian: "Literature and Ideology"

Gæsteforelæsning ved Gao Xingjian, vinder af Nobelprisen i litteratur i 2000. LUKKET FOR TILMELDING.

3. maj 2011, kl. 12.15-13.30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Ravinder Kaur

Ravinder Kaur, lektor ved ToRS, holder den næste ADI Lunch Lecture, som vil handle om "Design of a Nation: Making India Global".

2. maj 2011, kl. 15.15-17.15

Trapped Giant: China's Troubled Military Rise

Center for Militære Studier inviterer til seminar om "Trapped Giant: China's Troubled Military Rise" ved Dr. Jonathan Holslag, Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies.

29. april 2011, kl. 14.30

LARM Artist Talks: Miya Yoshida

LARM Artist Talk: Miya Yoshida, medie/kunstforsker og kurator fra Japan, for tiden tilknyttet Freie Universität, Berlin.

28. april - 29. april 2011

Forsknings Døgn 2011: udFORSK Asien!

Den 28. og 29. april slår Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultetsbibliotek dørene op for Forskningens Døgn 2011 med arrangementet udFORSK Asien!

28. april 2011, kl. 12.15-13.15

Power, Planning, and the Emergence of Baroque Forms of Life in Urban Malaysia

Dr. Richard Baxstrom, University of Edinburgh, gæster ADI med en forelæsning om "Power, Planning, and the Emergence of Baroque Forms of Life in Urban Malaysia". Alle er velkomne!

14. april 2011, kl. 13.00-15.00

The 'authentic' other on display: living ethnographic exhibitions - past and present

Centre for Global South Asian Studies (CGSAS) inviterer til forelæsning ved Anne Folke Henningsen, Saxo Instituttet. 

13. april 2011, kl. 13.00

Bombay's Entangled Modernities, c. 1700-1900

Netværk for verdenshistorie og Saxo Instituttet inviterer til forelæsning og efterfølgende master class med professor C. A. Bayly fra University of Cambridge.

12. april 2011, kl. 15.00-16.00

Guest lecture by Prof. Shereen Ratnagar

The Management of Water and Waste Water in some Towns of the Harrappa Civilization of South Asia.

11. april 2011, kl. 15.00-17.00

Seminar: Is a Peaceful Rise of China Possible?

Center for Militære Studier, Institut for Statskundskab, inviterer til seminar med professor Barry Buzan.

7. april - 8. april 2011

What's in a word? The minority concept revisited

Konference og Ph.d. kursus. Læs mere om format, program og frister for registrering, abstracts og papers.

30. marts 2011, kl. 17.30-19.00

Awakening Giant - the Cultural Revolution in the People´s Republic of China

Jens Bjerre, eventyrer, forfatter og dokumentarfilmmager, gæster NIAS og viser film fra 1960'ernes Kina.

25. marts 2011, kl. 9.15-16.00

Heroes and Exemplary Lives in Modern Japan

Japanstudier ved ToRS inviterer til workshop med Dr. Kweku Ampiah, WREAC Academic Fellow in Japanese Studies, Department of Asian Studies, University of Leeds.

23. marts 2011, kl. 13.00

A Passage to India

Filmatiseringen af E. M. Forsters berømte roman "A Passage to India" vises, herefter er der diskussion.

21. marts 2011, kl. 14.15-16.00

Tagore's Legacy

Gæsteforelæsning "Tagore's Legacy - Rabindranath Tagore's Literature and its Relevance in Modern India" ved Dr. William Radice, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Alle er velkomne.

17. marts 2011, kl. 17.00

The Impact of Connectivity on Market Interlinkages; Evidence from Rural Punjab

Præsentation ved Mahvish Shami, Københavns Universitet.

24. febr. 2011, kl. 14.30-16.00

Minicoy - A Muslim Atoll society where women own the homes

Gæsteforelæsning ved Niels Finn Munch-Petersen, senior ekspert, NIAS.

21. febr. 2011, kl. 12.30

Lunch talk: Dimensions of Social Cohesion

Lunch talk om "Dimensions of Social cohesion in West-Asian and North African countries" ved Professor Olli Kangas, Social Insurance Institution of Finland.

17. febr. 2011, kl. 12.30

On Hatred: Concept, Crime, Culture

Lunch talk ved Thomas Brudholm, lektor, Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, om "Hatred: Concept, Crime, Culture."

24. jan. 2011, kl. 15.00

Gæsteforelæsning med Geoffrey Benjamin

Gæsteforelæsning om "Cooking, Eating and Orientation: The Malay and Chinese and Cultural Regimes Compared" ved professor Geoffrey Benjamin fra Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

20. jan. 2011, kl. 10.00-11.15

Chinese Pension Reform

Gæsteforelæsning "Chinese Pension Reform in the Face of Demographic Transition and Financial Imperfections" på ØI ved Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zurich.

8. dec. 2010, kl. 16.00-17.00

The First Chinese Diaspora: China and Southeast Asia

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor John Miksic fra National University of Singapore. Forelæsningen er arrangeret af ADI og Sydøstasienstudier, ToRS i anledning af 50 års jubilæet for Asienstudier ved Københavns Universitet.

8. dec. 2010, kl. 12.15-13.30

ADI Lunch Lecture

"Junk Empire. A preliminary take on Chinese construction projects and timber extraction in Mozambique" ved Morten Axel Pedersen, Mikkel Bunkenborg og Morten Nielsen fra Institut for Antropologi.

7. dec. 2010, kl. 13.00

Dynamic Labor Demand in China: Public and Private Objectives

Econometrics seminar om "Dynamic Labor Demand in China: Public and Private Objectives" på Økonomisk Institut ved Russell Cooper, University of Texas.

6. dec. 2010, kl. 15.15-16.15

Shipwrecks in the Java Sea: Ancient Ships and Modern Treasure Hunters

ADI og Sydøstasienstudier, ToRS inviterer til forelæsning ved Professor John Miksic fra National University of Singapore.

6. dec. 2010, kl. 14.30

Rethinking China’s New Documentary Movement: Engagement with the Social

Lu Xinyu fra Fudan University, Shanghai giver gæsteforelæsning om 'New Documentary Movement'.

2. dec. 2010, kl. 17.00-19.30

Visual Anthropology: Awakening Giant - the Cultural Revolution in the People´s Republic of China

AFLYST! Jens Bjerre, eventyrer, forfatter og dokumentarfilmmager, gæster NIAS og viser film fra 1960'ernes Kina.

29. nov. 2010, kl. 15.30

Informationsmøde - sommerskole i Singapore

Kom til informationsmøde på ToRS om sommerskole i Singapore 2011.

16. nov. 2010, kl. 11.00-13.00

Towards a new literature? Women writers in contemporary Japan

Japanstudier og ADI indbyder til gæsteforelæsning med Professor Anne Sakai-Bayard fra INALCO, Paris.

11. nov. - 13. nov. 2010

Asian Diversity in a Global Context

ADI's årlige internationale konference i Festsalen er i år udvidet til et stort tre-dages arrangement med et væld af workshops og paneler.

12. okt. 2010, kl. 10.00-12.00

Nepal Today

Nepal Today: A Conversation on Development, Governance and Politics - with Professor Mahendra Lawoti, University of Michigan.

5. okt. 2010, kl. 13.00-15.00

Goa - An Internal Exotic in South Asia

Gæste forelæsning ved Pamila Gupta, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg. "Goa - An Internal Exotic in South Asia. Discourses of Colonialism and Tourism"

4. okt. 2010, kl. 14.30-16.00

Danish Media and Pakistani Islam

Gæsteforelæsning på NIAS ved Uzma Rehman, Ph.d. fra Religionshistorie, ToRS. Alle er velkomne.

28. sept. 2010, kl. 9.30-17.30

Copenhagen South Asia Workshop

En-dags workshop om "Writing South Asia" med paper præsentationer samt gæsteforelæsning ved Professor Tanika Sarkar fra Jawaharlal Nehru University.

24. sept. 2010, kl. 10.00-11.30

National attitudes and politics in Japan

Gæsteforelæsning med Professor Akihiko Tanaka, Managing Director & Executive Vice President, University of Tokyo. Alle er velkomne. Registrering nødvendig.

23. sept. 2010, kl. 9.15-11.00

Understanding the Energy Diplomacies of East Asian States

Gæsteforlæsning med Christopher Dent, Professor of East Asia's International Political Economy ved University of Leeds.

23. sept. 2010, kl. 15.15-16.30

The British Empire c. 1800-1950: between reform and repression

Christopher Bayly, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge er udnævnt adjungeret professor ved SAXO Instituttet og holder tiltrædelsesforelæsning om "The British Empire c. 1800-1950: between reform and repression".

22. sept. 2010, kl. 15.15-16.30

Free trade agreements in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific

Gæsteforelæsning med Christopher Dent, Professor of East Asia's International Political Economy ved University of Leeds.

21. sept. 2010, kl. 15.15-17.00

Shiroki - kalligrafi workshop

Kalligrafi workshop med den japanske kunstner Shiroki.

21. sept. 2010, kl. 15.00-16.30

Thai Ghosts Go Modern: Production, Circulation, and Consumption of the Horror in Contemporary Thailand

Gæsteforelæsning ved Pattana Kitiarsa, Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore.

17. sept. 2010, kl. 13.30-15.00

Tibetanske nomader - en livsform i forandring

En billedfortælling af antropolog og rejseleder Ellen Bangsbo.

15. sept. 2010, kl. 12.15-13.30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Ildiko Beller-Hann

"Household economy and community cohesion in rural Xinjiang" ved lektor Ildiko Beller-Hann, Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier. 

9. sept. 2010, kl. 11.00

Talking of the Japanese Society and Literature: From Hello Kitty to Haruki Murakami

Japanstudier inviterer til Q&A Seminar med Prof. Norihiro Kato, Waseda University, Tokyo.

3. sept. 2010, kl. 14.00

Ph.d.-forsvar i Antropologi ved Susanne Bregnbæk

Susanne Bregnbæk forsvarer sin Ph.d.-afhandling "Family, State and the Quandaries of Education: The Tension between Self-sacrifice and Self-actualization among University Students in Beijing"

1. sept. 2010, kl. 14.30-16.00

Forskningsseminar med Professor Charles Keyes

Charles Keyes, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and International Studies,
University of Washington, holder oplæg "From Peasant to Cosmopolitan Villagers: Refiguring the ‘Rural' in Northeastern Thailand" på Institut for Antropologi.

17. juni 2010, kl. 13.15

Ph.d. forsvar - Helle Jørgensen

Helle Jørgensen, Institut for Historie og Områdestudier, Aarhus Universitet, forsvarer sin Ph.d.-afhandling "Tranquebar - hvis historie? Transnational kulturarv i en tidligere dansk handelskoloni i Sydindien".

16. juni 2010, kl. 9.30-17.30

The Ethnic Crises in Burma/Myanmar: 2010 and Beyond

Seminaret afholdes på NIAS og fokuserer på den etniske konflikt i Burma/Myanmar, de seneste udviklinger samt det internationale samfunds dilemmaer og muligheder for respons.

27. maj 2010, kl. 13.00-14.30

Seminar - Digital governance in Chengdu

Seminar om 'Digital governance in Chengdu: Urban management systems and government affairs service centres' ved Jesper Schlæger, Ph.d. stipendiat, Institut for Statskundskab. Alle er velkomne.

19. maj 2010, kl. 12.15-13.30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Jakob Roland Munch

Den næste forelæsning i ADI Lunch Lecture serien er med Jakob Roland Munch, Professor, Økonomisk Institut. "Trade with China - Are there reasons to be concerned?"

5. maj 2010, kl. 14.00-17.00

Special Seminar on Diplomacy in East Asia

Special Seminar on Diplomacy in East Asia: Japan, US and China relations in the 21st  century organized by The Asia Research Centre, CBS and the Japanese Embassy in Copenhagen.

21. april 2010, kl. 12.15-13.30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Søren Ivarsson

Søren Ivarsson, Saxo Instituttet, holder den næste ADI Lunch Lecture, som vil handle om "Policepower and the formation of the modern Thai state: The Thai Provincial Gendarmerie and its Danish Officers, 1897-1926."

12. april 2010, kl. 15.00-17.00

China and India as development actors

Gæsteforelæsning med Peter Kragelund, Roskilde Universitet. Forelæsningen er arrangeret af Camilla Sørensen, Institut for Statskundskab.

12. april 2010, kl. 13.15-14.45

Gæsteforelæsning - Helmut Morsbach

ADI indbyder til gæsteforelæsning med Professor Helmut Morsbach, Temple University, Tokyo. Titlen på forelæsningen er "The psychological importance of ritualized gift exchange in modern Japan".

8. april 2010, kl. 14.00-16.00

The Process of Resolution of Conflict in Aceh: Are there Lessons To Be Learned

Timo Kivimäki, professor, Institut for Statskundskab, giver gæsteforelæsning på NIAS. Alle er velkomne.

25. marts 2010, kl. 12.30-14.00

Masculinities: Perspectives from the South

Dr. Ajay Bailey, University of Groningen, gæster NIAS og ADI for at deltage i en roundtable diskussion om "Masculinities: Perspectives from the South".

22. marts 2010, kl. 15.00-17.00

Gæsteforelæsning - Jonas Parello-Plesner

Institut for Statskundskab inviterer til gæsteforelæsning om "The New Rising Powers, China and India - responsible stakeholders of the international system?"

18. marts 2010, kl. 19.00-21.00

Debataften om Japan

Dansk-Japansk Selskab afholder debat om dagens Japan. Arrangementet er åbent for alle.

17. marts 2010, kl. 12.15-13.30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Ayo Wahlberg

Ayo Wahlberg, Institut for Antropologi, giver den næste ADI Lunch Lecture: “Family secrets and the industrialisation of herbal medicine in Viet Nam”.

16. marts 2010, kl. 14.00-16.00

Gæsteforelæsning - Erica Bornstein

Erica Bornstein, adjunkt i antropologi, University of Wisconsin, besøger ToRS og giver en forelæsning med titlen 'Philanthropy and Empathy in New Delhi'.

15. marts 2010, kl. 10.00-12.00

ADI South Asia Lecture - Dr. Nikita Sud

Dr. Nikita Sud fra Department of International Development, University of Oxford gæster Københavns Universitet med en forelæsning om "Liberalisation, Hindu Nationalism and the State".

5. marts 2010, kl. 14.00

Ph.d. forsvar - Mikkel Rytter

Mikkel Rytter, Institut for Antropologi, forsvarer sin Ph.d. afhandling "Family Upheaval - Generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark".

17. febr. 2010, kl. 12.15-13.30

ADI Lunch Lecture - East Asian Peace

Timo Kivimäki, professor, Institut for Statskundskab lægger ud med forelæsningen 'East Asian Peace' i ADI lunch lecture serien.

10. febr. - 11. febr. 2010

Cultural Cities: Internationalt seminar på IKK

"Creativity and Social Inclusion in Osaka and Copenhagen" er et internationalt 2-dages seminar, der markerer startskuddet til et forskningssamarbejde mellem IKK og Urban Research Plaza ved Osaka City University. Alle er velkomne.

21. jan. 2010, kl. 13.00-14.30

Gæsteforelæsning ved Nils Finn Munch-Petersen

Nils Finn Munch-Petersen holder gæsteforelæsning om "The Maldive Islands - cultural implosion" på NIAS. Alle er velkomne.

17. dec. 2009, kl. 14.00-16.00

China - The Resilience of the Authoritarian State

Börje Ljunggren, tidligere svensk ambassador i Kina og Vietnam, gæster NIAS for at give en forelæsning om 'China - The Resilience of the Authoritarian State'. Alle er velkomne!

10. dec. 2009, kl. 14.00

Ph.d.-forsvar - Ann Fenger Benwell

Ann Fenger Benwell forvarer sin Ph.d. afhandling 'Keeping up Appearances - Gender and Ideal Womanhood in Postsocialist Mongolia'.

8. dec. 2009, kl. 14.00-17.00

Climate Change - Perspectives on Asia

I anledning af COP15 i København fra den 7.-18. december afholder ADI og NIAS et fælles, tværfagligt klimaseminar med fokus på Asien. Alle er velkomne!

7. dec. - 9. dec. 2009

ADI South Asia lectures - Professor Rajesh Kochhar

Professor Rajesh Kochhar fra Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Chandigarh, gæster Københavns Universitet og Nationalmuseet for at give en række forelæsninger.

2. dec. 2009, kl. 10.00-17.30

ADI South Asia Workshop - Reimagining Pakistan

ADI og Centre of Global South Asian Studies ved Københavns Universitet inviterer til en-dags workshop under titlen 'Reimagining Pakistan' med bl.a. Tariq Ali, Markus Daechsel og Michael Jarlner. Tilmelding er nødvendig.

26. nov. - 27. nov. 2009

ADI Workshop

ADI inviterer til to-dags museumsworkshop med paneler bestående af antropologer, historikere, forskere fra områdestudier og museumsantropologer. Tilmelding er nødvendig.

25. nov. 2009, kl. 10.00-16.30

Faglig og social ADI-dag

ADI holder et fagligt og socialt en-dags arrangement for nyansatte under ADI bevillingen samt andre Asien forskere ved Københavns Universitet. 

17. nov. 2009, kl. 15.15-17.00

Etniske minoriteter og nationale identiteter i Iran

ToRS indbyder til Islamseminar med oplæg ved Rasmus Elling.

13. nov. 2009, kl. 13.00-15.00

Monastic Warriors as Villains: Constructing Cultural Paradigms in Early Modern and Modern Japan

Mikael Adolphson fra University of Alberta holder gæsteforelæsning på ToRS om 'Monastic Warriors as Villains: Constructing Cultural Paradigms in Early Modern and Modern Japan'.

12. nov. 2009, kl. 10.00-12.00

ADI South Asia lecture med Abhijit Roy

Abhijit Roy giver en gæsteforelæsning om populær kultur, TV og globalisering. Titlen er "Betty comes to India: Television, globalization and popular discourses of ‘change'".

9. nov. 2009, kl. 14.00-17.00

Waterworlds

Det antropologiske klimacenter Waterworlds inviterer til seminar med præsentation af projektet.

2. nov. 2009, kl. 10.15-12.00

Hvordan studeres International Politik verden over?

Seminar i anledningen af udgivelsen af 'International Relations Scholarship Around the World', redigeret af Arlene B. Tickner & Ole Wæver; Routledge 2009.

28. okt. 2009, kl. 15.15-17.00

Gæsteforelæsning med Guoxiang Peng

ADI inviterer til gæsteforelæsning med Professor Guoxiang Peng, Tsinghua University. Titlen på forelæsningen er 'Inside the Revival of Confucianism in Mainland China: the Vicissitudes of Confucian Classics in Contemporary China as an Example'.

22. okt. 2009, kl. 15.15-17.00

ADI South Asia Seminar - Det Indiske Demokrati

ADI-seminar med Stig Toft Madsen og Jørgen Dige, Århus Universitet om 'Det Indiske Demokrati'. 

6. okt. 2009, kl. 16.00-17.30

Kloden rundt: Fortællinger om tid og rum

Center for Komparative Kulturstudier arrangerer hvert semester i storinstituttet en række forskningseftermiddage i form af arrangementet Kloden Rundt. Denne gang er temaet: Fortællinger om tid og rum.

6. okt. 2009, kl. 12.30-15.30

Round table discussion

NIAS inviterer til round table discussion om "What Could the Aceh Experience Contribute to Our Understanding of Conflict Resolution and Post Conflict Development?"

1. okt. 2009, kl. 10.15-12.00

The state and public sector performance in China

Professor og seniorforsker Christine Wong fra Oxford University gæster Københavns Universitet den 1. oktober. Alle er velkomne til hendes forelæsning "The state and public sector performance in China".

24. sept. 2009, kl. 18.30-20.30

Konflikten i Sri Lanka

International Debat og netværket Initiativet2009 sætter fokus på Sri Lanka konflikten med et debatarrangement 'Sri Lanka efter krigen - hvordan vindes freden?' Alle er velkomne.

18. sept. 2009, kl. 15.00-16.00

Diskussionsmøde med Professor Susan Napier

Professor Susan Napier, Tufts University, besøger Asienafdelingen i Leifsgade til et uformelt diskussionsmøde om japansk litteratur og popkultur.

18. sept. 2009, kl. 14.00

Ph.d.-forsvar - Mikkel Bunkenborg

Ph.d.-stipendiat Mikkel Bunkenborg, Institut for Antropologi forsvarer sin afhandling "Porous Persons and Empty Disorders - Producing Healthy People in Rural North China".

17. sept. 2009, kl. 13.30-17.30

Soft Power Impact of Asia

Asian Dynamics Initiative inviterer til enestående konference i Festsalen. Fire internationale eksperter leverer hovedtalerne under det overordnede tema Asiens soft power. Emnerne i talerne vil rangere fra anime og manga til hinduisme, diplomati og finanskrise. 

11. sept. 2009, kl. 13.00

Ph.d.-forsvar - Morten Oxenbøll

Morten Oxenbøll forsvarer sin Ph.d afhandling "Akutō. Images of Medieval Japanese Banditry".

26. aug. 2009, kl. 16.30-18.30

Culture and Contrition: Apology in Dispute Resolution in Japan and North America

Annalise Acorn, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, gæster ToRS med forelæsningen 'Culture and Contrition: Apology in Dispute Resolution in Japan and North America'.

25. aug. 2009, kl. 14.00-15.30

Gæsteforelæsning - Doris Jedamski

Dr. Doris Jedamski, Leiden Universitet, besøger NIAS og giver forelæsningen "The Chinese Malay contribution to the Understanding of a National Culture in Indonesia".

10. aug. - 14. aug. 2009

Doing Business in China

Nordic Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai organizes a one-week course on 'Doing Business in China' from 10-14 August 2009. Application deadline: 1 June 2009

10. aug. 2009

Konference i Korea - Peace and conflict

The Peace and Conflict Studies Network of the ASEM Education Hub together with Yonsei University will organize a full day conference in Seoul on "Long Peace of East Asia since 1979 and West Europe since 1945: Comparison and Implications".

6. aug. - 9. aug. 2009

East Asian Peace since 1979 - Panel

NIAS together with its alliance partners will organize a panel on "East Asian Peace 1979-" for the European Alliance for Asian Studies at the 6th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) in August 2009 in Daejeon, Korea.

19. juli - 26. juli 2009

South Asian Migration and Diaspora

Nordisk Sommeruniversitets studiekreds 'South Asia in the 21st Century' inviterer til workshop ved sommersessionen 2009 i Tyrifjord, Norge.
Sidste frist for tilmelding 30. marts 2009.

6. juli - 24. juli 2009

Sommerkursus: Introduction to Modern China

Nordic Centre Fudan University i Shanghai holder igen i år et tre ugers sommerkursus for studerende fra nordiske medlemsuniversiteter. Kurset er åben for tilmelding.

26. juni 2009, kl. 13.00

Ph.d. forsvar ved Frida Hastrup

Frida Hastrup forvarer sin Ph.d. afhandling 'Weathering the World. Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village'.

18. juni - 19. juni 2009

Konference: Copenhagen South Asia Network

Netværket CSAN holder sin første Sydasien-konference i København fra den 18-19. juni. Frist for at indsende abstracts: 31. marts. Tilmeldingsfrist: 1. maj.

8. juni - 10. juni 2009

Alternative Spaces and Cultural Translation

International conference on alternative spaces from 8-10 June 2009. A PhD course will run in the afternoon as a parallel programme. Deadline for registration is 1 April 2009.

18. maj 2009, kl. 14.00-16.00

Japan's role in peacebuilding in Asia

Gæsteforelæsning med Professor Toshiya Hoshino fra Osaka Universitet. Professor Hoshino er tidligere ministerråd ved den japanske FN-mission i New York og har specialiseret sig i fredsopbygning og humanitær bistand.

13. maj - 15. maj 2009

Ten Years of Democracy in Indonesia (1998-2008)

Nordic Indonesia Studies Network er et nyt forum for Nordens Indonesien forskere. Lige nu er der tilmelding og 'Call for Papers' til den første workshop 'Ten Years of Democracy in Indonesia (1998-2008)'.

12. maj 2009, kl. 14.00-15.30

Riots and Elections in India

Professor Dipak Malik gæster København den 12. maj for at holde en forelæsning om det igangværende valg i Indien og de bagvedliggende politiske processer. Gæsteforelæsningen er arrangeret af NIAS og ADI.

30. april 2009, kl. 15.15-17.00

Kloden Rundt: Civilsamfund og Stat

Forskningseftermiddagen "Kloden Rundt: Civilsamfund og Stat" bringer tilhørerne på en rejse fra Tibet over Iran til Tyrkiet med tre oplæg fra forskellige fagområder.

23. april - 24. april 2009

Gæsteforelæsninger med Pranab Bardhan

Professor Pranab Bardhan, udviklingsøkonom fra UC Berkeley, gæster DERG for at give offentlige forelæsninger om "Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: A Comparative Economic Assessment of the Rise of China and India".

3. april 2009, kl. 14.15-15.00

Tiltrædelsesforelæsning: China's new civil society - heading anywhere?

Nytiltrådt professor i Kina-studier på ToRS ved Københavns Universitet, Jørgen Delman, holder tiltrædelsesforelæsning den 3. april. Titlen på forelæsningen er "China's new civil society - heading anywhere?".

1. april 2009, kl. 10.00-11.30

Tensions in Freefall? The Study of China-Tibet Relations Today

ToRS byder velkommen til gæsteforelæsning med professor Robert J. Barnett fra Columbia University. Titlen på forelæsningen er 'Tensions in Freefall? The Study of China-Tibet Relations Today'.

31. marts 2009, kl. 14.00

The Enchanted Gift of Democracy. Imagining and Negotiating Democracy in the Tibetan Diaspora

Trine Brox forvarer sin Ph.d. afhandling 'The Enchanted Gift of Democracy. Imagining and Negotiating Democracy in the Tibetan Diaspora'. 

31. marts 2009, kl. 13.00-14.30

The Ideology of Shari'a Implementation in Contemporary Aceh

Michael Feener fra National University of Singapore gæster i øjeblikket Københavns Universitet. I den forbindelse har Nordic Indonesia Studies Network arrangeret en gæsteforelæsning med ham under titlen 'The Ideology of Shari'a Implementation in Contemporary Aceh'.

28. marts 2009

Visualising Asian Modernity

Visualising Asian Modernity is a series of seminar events that will examine the international impact of the contemporary Asian art world in relation to social change in East Asian societies.

17. marts 2009, kl. 14.00-16.00

Gæsteforelæsning ved Pun Ngai

Dr. Pun Ngai gæster NIAS og Koordinationen for Kønsforskning ved Københavns Universitet, hvor hun giver en gæsteforelæsning om 'Chinese Female Workers' Subject and New Practices of Community-based Organizing'.

13. marts - 15. marts 2009

Democratic Values and Political Practices in South Asia

The Nordic Summer University cluster ‘South Asia in the 21st Century' is pleased to invite you to the first of six workshops focusing on South Asia. 

5. marts 2009, kl. 13.00-15.00

Soft Power Superpowers in Asia

Japans ambassadør, Seiichi Kondo, gæster Japanskafdelingen på ToRS, Københavns Universitet, for at give forelæsningen 'Soft Power Superpowers in Asia'.

2. marts 2009, kl. 13.00

Ph.d. forsvar ved Martin Petersen

Martin Petersen, Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, forsvarer sin Ph.d. afhandling 'Collecting Korean Shamanism: Biographies & Collecting Devices'.

26. febr. - 27. febr. 2009

Focus Asia i Lund

Center for Øst- og Sydøstasiatiske Studier ved Lunds Universitet holder to gange årligt en to-dages åben forelæsningsrække under navnet 'Focus Asia'. Temaet denne gang er 'Medier i Asien'. Alle forelæsningerne er på engelsk. 

24. febr. 2009, kl. 14.00-15.30

Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

'Ningxia: Introduction to a Province in Western China'. Jesper Schlæger, Ph.d. stipendiat ved Institut for Statskundskab på Københavns Universitet, fortæller om sit ophold i Ningxia i 2008.

20. febr. 2009, kl. 13.15

Ph.d. forsvar ved Ingeborg Vind

Ingeborg Vind forsvarer sin Ph.d.-afhandling "Skill upgrading in global production networks. The electronics industry in Ho Chi Minh City Region."

19. febr. 2009, kl. 15.15-16.30

Regional Development and the Competitive Dynamics of Global Production Networks: An East Asian Perspective

Professor Henry Yeung fra Department of Geography ved National University of Singapore holder foredrag på Institut for Geografi og Geologi.

18. febr. - 19. febr. 2009

Seminar og gæsteforelæsning: Confucianism

Professor Daniel A. Bell gæster Danmark for at deltage i to arrangementer: et en-dags seminar 'Confucianism, Past and Present' ved Århus Universitet den 18.2. og en gæsteforelæsning 'China's New Confucianism' ved Kinesisk Afdeling, ToRS, Københavns Universitet den 19.2.

9. febr. 2009, kl. 13.00-14.30

Lunch talk med Professor Ren Xiao

Professor Ren Xiao lægger vejen forbi NIAS for at holde en lunch talk om forholdet mellem Kina-Nordkorea-Sydkorea fra et kinesisk perspektiv. 

4. febr. 2009, kl. 13.00-14.30

Gæsteforelæsning på CAST

Professor Ren Xiao giver en gæsteforelæsning på CAST under titlen: "Security regime building in Northeast Asia".  

9. dec. 2008, kl. 15.15

Gæsteforelæsning: Writing for Socialism

Afdelingen for Kinastudier indbyder til gæsteforelæsning ved Dr. Richard King, University of Victoria, Canada.

4. dec. 2008, kl. 10.00

Kandidateksamen - Geografi

Gertrud Kümmel Nielsen forsvarer sit speciale 'Chinese investments in Mozambique. A case study on the developmental impacts of Chinese investments in Africa'.

3. dec. 2008, kl. 16.30-18.00

Mød videnskaben - Kina på kinesisk

Foredragsrækken 'Mød Videnskaben' er en invitation til at lære mere om forskningen på Københavns Universitet. Denne gang tegner Bent Nielsen, lektor på Kinastudier, et billede af, hvordan kineserne ser deres land og kultur.

28. nov. 2008, kl. 9.15-16.00

The Growth of Media in China

Konference arrangeret af den danske UNESCO-nationalkommission, International Media Support og Copenhagen Business School.

27. nov. 2008, kl. 13.15-15.00

Forelæsning ved Asger Røjle Christensen

Japansk afdelingen ved Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regional Studier indbyder til forelæsning med Asger Røjle Christensen, der for nylig har udgivet bogen 'Undskyld på japansk'.

25. nov. 2008, kl. 13.00-15.00

Tibet Seminar

NIAS og Afdelingen for Tibetologi, Københavns Universitet, afholder et Tibet Seminar med besøg af en delegation af Tibetforskere fra Kina. Arrangementet er kun for inviterede.

24. nov. 2008, kl. 14.00

Ph.d. forsvar

Camilla T. N. Sørensen, Institut for Statskundskab, forsvarer Ph.d. afhandlingen 'The Contingent Rise of China. The Development in Chinese Post-Cold War Security Policy'.

21. nov. 2008, kl. 10.15-12.00

Seminar: Governance in India

Gæsteprofessor ved Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier Amit Prakash fra Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, holder et seminar om 'Governance in India: Assessments of an Empirical Survey'.

19. nov. 2008, kl. 13.00-16.00

Seminar: Indigenous Peoples in Southeast Asia

NIAS - Nordisk Institut for Asienstudier og Asienafdelingen ved Københavns Universitet inviterer til seminar om etniske minoriteter og indfødte folk i Sydøstasien. Oplægsholderne er Chris Duncan, Katja Kvaale, Mikael Gravers og Ida Nicolaisen.

19. nov. 2008, kl. 10.00-15.00

Introduktionskursus: The Census of India

Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ og Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier ved Københavns Universitet  arrangerer et introduktionskursus i brugen af den elektroniske udgave af 'The Census of India'.

18. nov. 2008, kl. 10.00-12.00

Franco-Lao cultural hybridity at play

Simon Creak fra Australian National University gæster Saxo Instituttet og giver en forelæsning med titlen 'Franco-Lao cultural hybridity at play: How writing the traditional game of tikhi made modern Laos'.

13. nov. - 30. nov. 2008

Ph.d. kursus

Det Biovidenskabelige Fakultet (LIFE) udbyder et Ph.d. kursus under titlen 'Food, Medicine and Philosophy in East and West'. Kurset starter i november 2008, og der er stadig ledige pladser.

7. nov. 2008, kl. 13.00-16.30

Un-finished Nations in Southeast Asia

CIDeS - Center for International Development Studies ved Roskilde Universitetscenter og NIAS - Nordisk Institut for Asienstudier indbyder til seminar med Max Lane, National University of Singapore og Søren Ivarsson, Københavns Universitet.

6. nov. 2008, kl. 13.15-16.00

Ægteskabsmigration: køn, mobilitet og identitet

Migrationsinitiativet ved Københavns Universitet inviterer til seminar om 'Ægteskabsmigration: køn, mobilitet og identitet'.

6. nov. - 7. nov. 2008

Konference - Human Rights and Business

Fødevareøkonomisk Institut (KU), Centre for CSR (CBS) og Juridisk Institut arrangerer konferencen 'Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Responsibilities for Human Rights, and International Law'

5. nov. 2008, kl. 19.30

Livelihoods, byudvikling og markeder i afrikanske og asiatiske "frontier"-områder

Foredrag med Professor Niels Fold, Institut for Geografi og Geologi, KU.

4. nov. 2008, kl. 13.00

PhD forsvar

Huong My Nguyen forsvarer sin PhD afhandling 'Breaking the Silence: Understanding reproductive Trct Infections among Abortion Seeking Women in Vietnam'.

30. okt. 2008, kl. 16.00-18.00

‘Decoupling', WTO krisen og finansiel turbulens: EU, Indien og Kina i den nye verdensøkonomi

Institut for Statskundskab indbyder til forelæsningen, der vil tage afsæt i Kinas og Indiens opblomstring som de nye handelsmagter i verdensøkonomien.

30. okt. 2008, kl. 15.00-17.00

Gæsteforelæsning - Indian Village

ToRS indbyder til gæsteforelæsning med Professor Dr. Rana P. B. Singh, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Titlen på forelæsningen er 'Indian Village: System and Tradition in Space, Modernity & Change'.

30. okt. 2008, kl. 15.00-17.00

Foredrag: Det europæiske kunstmuseum - og det kinesiske

Foredrag ved lektor Anders Troelsen, Institut for Æstetiske Fag, Afdeling for Kunsthistorie, Aarhus Universitet.

29. okt. 2008, kl. 8.00-10.00

How does the EU deal with a rising China?

Institut for Statskundskab inviterer til gæsteforelæsning ved Jonas Parello Plesner fra Asien- og Latinamerikakontoret, Udenrigsministeriet.

29. okt. 2008, kl. 19.00

Musik fra en udryddet kultur i det østlige Afghanistan

Foredrag om 'Musik fra en udryddet kultur i det østlige Afghanistan' i Centralasiatisk Selskab ved musiker og komponist Christer Irgens-Møller.

28. okt. 2008, kl. 15.15-17.00

Popkultur i Japan

Afdelingen for japansk ved ToRS afholder i samarbejde med Den Japanske Ambassade en forelæsning med titlen 'Pop Culture in Japan and its Cultural Roots' ved Professor Hamano Yasuki.

24. okt. 2008, kl. 13.00-15.00

Seminar: Contrasting Cases of Nepal and Bangladesh

DIIS og NIAS inviterer til seminar 'Inequality and Development Regimes: The Contrasting Cases of Nepal and Bangladesh' ved David Ludden.

10. okt. 2008, kl. 10.15-18.00

Workshop - Translocal, Religious Devotion

Afdeling for Religionshistorie, Københavns Universitet afholder workshop om 'Translocal, Religious Devotion'. Alle er velkomne.

8. okt. 2008, kl. 16.15-18.00

Kloden rundt - fortællinger om oprindelighed

Center for Komparative Kulturstudier inviterer til 'Kloden rundt' - en forskningseftermiddag under temaet 'Fortællinger om oprindelighed'.

7. okt. 2008, kl. 10.15-12.00

Family in Crisis: Perceptions of Single Women in Beijing

Arianne M Gaetano, PhD stipendiat ved Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund Universitet besøger NIAS i oktober, hvor hun vil tale om 'Family in Crisis: Perceptions of Single Women in Beijing'.

3. okt. 2008, kl. 13.15-15.00

Tranquebar - then and now

Afdeling for Religionshistorie, Københavns Universitet og Tranquebar Initiativet, Nationalmuseet indbyder til gæsteforelæsning 'Tranquebar - then and now. A personal reflection as pastor in Tranquebar, South India'.

1. okt. 2008, kl. 16.15-17.00

The Post-Tsunami Impact on Women in Tranquebar

Center for Komparative Kulturstudier, Københavns Universitet og Tranquebar Initiativet, Nationalmuseet inviterer til gæsteforelæsning 'The Post-Tsunami Impact on Women in Tranquebar, India'.

27. sept. 2008, kl. 9.00

PhD forsvar

Karl Jakob Krogness forsvarer sin PhD afhandling 'The Koseki System and "Koseki Consciousness" An Exploration of the Development and Function of the Modern Household Registration System and how it influences Social Life'.

16. sept. 2008, kl. 13.30

Kick-off konference

Asian Dynamics Initiative skydes i gang med en højt profileret konference i Festsalen på Frue Plads den 16.9.2008.